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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
The government won't have it, Margaret, seriously ill people who want a chance to keep on living will have it (or at least the useable bits of it!). However, it's a personal choice. For myself, I'm far more concerned that any property or assets that I leave behind go to my loved ones and not the government. As for my body, they can do what they want with it and if any of it can be of use to someone else, that's fine by me.
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Ok, so it won't go to the government, but it is government initiative to solve the low levels of organ donation.
It will be the government who will change the law which makes a deceased's body available for the harvesting of organs without
real consent.
They will assume that if you do not opt out(through inertia) that you consent.
That is NOT consent. It is unethical.
Does it not make you uncomfortable that if they assume ownership of your remains, then they may assume your consent over other issues?
Inertia is a ploy used by commercial enterprises...they figure that if you do not act, then you are OK to fall into line.
I get that there are people out there who need organs to be donated in order to live.
I worked in the NHS for almost thirty years, so of course I know what a lack of resources(in this case, organs) means in real terms.
All that said, I do not think this is the way to address the issue.
The way forward is to get people to WANT to donate their organs after death.
The way to do this is education...and having the awkward conversation about death.
And yes, of course it is your personal choice Steve...as long as you are allowed to make that choice.