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Originally Posted by Neil
I'll be dead so won't need my body, someone else might as well have any bits that are of use to them.
You carry a donor card because you want to save lives with your bits but if the law is changed to do what you already want to then you will opt out. I've read it a few times and it still makes no sense to me. Looks like you just want to be anti-government and pretend there is some strange principal involved.
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Neil, there
is a principle involved and it is not strange at all...it is about the state(rather than government) owning your earthly remains.
It is about
assuming consent rather than actually seeking consent.
And looking back perhaps using the term government was not quite the right term...perhaps the word 'state' would have been more appropriate...and NO I am not anti government, or for that matter anti state. I just do not agree with the state owning your remains....which is what they are actually saying if thiis legislation goes through.
It is not my way of sticking two fingers up to the establishment either....it is me deciding that the state does not have a say in what happens to my remains.
Now, if that doesn't worry you
(but I think it should) you really will not get my point however much I try to explain my motives.
(what other things might the state decide that you have given consent to, because you haven't opted out of something. It all seems rather sinister to me)
If the state wants more people to donate organs then they should make them WANT to donate....they should educate folk in how their gift of body parts after death can give comfort in a time of sadness.
I get all that...I really do.
I have seen first hand how illness and life shortening disease can affect lives....But I resent the heavy handedness of this proposed legislation.