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All Adults Will Be Presumed To Be Organ Donors …
…..unless they explicitly opt out.
//An opt-out system for organ donation will soon become law after it passed its last hurdle in Parliament.
Campaigners hope the new system will encourage us to make our wishes known before we die, with an online register for those opting out.
Research has shown more than 80 per cent of adults in England would definitely donate their organs or would consider doing so. However, only 37 per cent of Britons have registered as donors on the NHS Organ Donor Register and received a donor card.
However, Professor Chris Rudge, a leading transplant surgeon, has said he would opt out on the grounds that the State should not presume to take a citizen’s organs. Last year he said: ‘Organ donation should be a present … I am so horribly opposed to a change in the law.’//
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Your thoughts?. For or against?
//An opt-out system for organ donation will soon become law after it passed its last hurdle in Parliament.
Campaigners hope the new system will encourage us to make our wishes known before we die, with an online register for those opting out.
Research has shown more than 80 per cent of adults in England would definitely donate their organs or would consider doing so. However, only 37 per cent of Britons have registered as donors on the NHS Organ Donor Register and received a donor card.
However, Professor Chris Rudge, a leading transplant surgeon, has said he would opt out on the grounds that the State should not presume to take a citizen’s organs. Last year he said: ‘Organ donation should be a present … I am so horribly opposed to a change in the law.’//
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Your thoughts?. For or against?
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If nothing else this thread shows that there's no limit to the insane flights of fancy embarked on by some.
10:40 Sat 02nd Feb 2019
maggiebee @10.45.
If a family member needed a donation, and hadn’t opted out, then it won’t be a problem will it?
anneasquith @ 10.51.
Would you be happy with your organs going to someone like George Best?
Needed a transplant because of alcoholism, and continued to drink after his transplant.
This is one of the reasons I think I should get a say over who gets anything from me.
If a family member needed a donation, and hadn’t opted out, then it won’t be a problem will it?
anneasquith @ 10.51.
Would you be happy with your organs going to someone like George Best?
Needed a transplant because of alcoholism, and continued to drink after his transplant.
This is one of the reasons I think I should get a say over who gets anything from me.
Broadening the debate slightly, I think there are two questions that everyone should need to answer :
1. Will I donate my organs after death?
2. Will I hope/expect to receive an organ if one of mine fails?
To me, yes/yes is fine as is no/no
yes/no is odd, but very altruistic and acceptable
no/yes is just plain hypocrisy and should not be allowed to be a valid choice in a civilised society.
As I've said before, whilst the change to presumed consent is better than the existing system, I'd actually like to see a system of 'required decision' :
Under this everyone (and I mean absolutely everyone with the mental capacity to do so) would be required to answer a yes/no question at age 18 (or on becoming a UK citizen) which would be along the lines of :
"Do you consent to donating your organs, remembering that refusing to do so may result in you being further down any list for receipt of organs?"
Refusing to answer the question would be a presumed 'no' - but result in absolute removal of any chance of receiving an organ.
We could play 'catch-up' with the existing population of over-18s as quickly as possible.
1. Will I donate my organs after death?
2. Will I hope/expect to receive an organ if one of mine fails?
To me, yes/yes is fine as is no/no
yes/no is odd, but very altruistic and acceptable
no/yes is just plain hypocrisy and should not be allowed to be a valid choice in a civilised society.
As I've said before, whilst the change to presumed consent is better than the existing system, I'd actually like to see a system of 'required decision' :
Under this everyone (and I mean absolutely everyone with the mental capacity to do so) would be required to answer a yes/no question at age 18 (or on becoming a UK citizen) which would be along the lines of :
"Do you consent to donating your organs, remembering that refusing to do so may result in you being further down any list for receipt of organs?"
Refusing to answer the question would be a presumed 'no' - but result in absolute removal of any chance of receiving an organ.
We could play 'catch-up' with the existing population of over-18s as quickly as possible.
As one who is a registered organ donor, and has a history of over 100 blood donations, I'm not overly concerned one way or another, although I do have sympathy with those who appear to mistrust the medical profession to play fair (we've seen the first steps in the wrong direction with the DNR labelling).
But it did cross my mind that perhaps we ought to extend the principle to blood donating (after all, like the organ situation, there is an insufficiency of donors) - the image of compulsory blood donating is both macabrely amusing and wonderfully dystopian ;-)
But it did cross my mind that perhaps we ought to extend the principle to blood donating (after all, like the organ situation, there is an insufficiency of donors) - the image of compulsory blood donating is both macabrely amusing and wonderfully dystopian ;-)
"Have you a better alternative to opting out?"
No I haven't, sqad. But the fact that there are insufficient donors indicates to me that not too many people are keen on the idea. If they were they'd take positive steps to register. It's unfortunate that patients die through lack of donors but I don't think this is the ideal way to address the problem. Perhaps a campaign to encourage more donors might be successful as I must say I've not seen anything that might encourage me to investigate the idea.
No I haven't, sqad. But the fact that there are insufficient donors indicates to me that not too many people are keen on the idea. If they were they'd take positive steps to register. It's unfortunate that patients die through lack of donors but I don't think this is the ideal way to address the problem. Perhaps a campaign to encourage more donors might be successful as I must say I've not seen anything that might encourage me to investigate the idea.
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