Compulsary organ donation

[WaldoMcFroog]

According to the Chief Medical Officer, we should be considered a possible candidate for organ donation upon death, unless we've opted out.

Seems fine to me. Some people are suggesting that it shouldn't be up to the government to dictate what happens to you when you die, but if you can opt out, and if this opt out process was well publicised and easy to do, where's the problem?

[Dassie]

I think it's a good idea - you can always opt out if it concerns you and you could be saving a life.

I agree with flip-flop. So called "defiling" a body is nonsense. What makes the difference between a live body and a dead one?.......the Soul..... and this Johnlambert is what goes to your "pearly gates"

You have discarded your body at the time of death and it no longer serves a purpose for you ( or anybody's china cabinet ) As for your ashes these are 98% made up of your coffin anyway.

[ruby27]

NJOK
What a great point.
Actually it might catch on. A play on the expression last supper!!
I'm sure that some communities that ate humans did so partly to honour the valour of thier slain enemies.

[what..the?]

On reading the posts here it seems most people here support the new opt out process, and I feel that even though I am allowed my own opinion I will be critised for wanting to opt out. I understand where people are coming from and saying there is no other use for the organs, why bury them etc.

But I basically feel that if i were to be seriously ill or my loved one in hospital and it was one of those life support situations, I think the doctors will say "sorry they aren't going to pull through ......'wait for it' I see he/her has not opted out of the organ donation so we will harvest now thank you."

Now you are all going to say nooooo they wouldn't do that they would make sure there was no possible chance or survival before that, and my responce is "how many mistakes do the NHS make never mind each...each day...each minute. And what about the people we hear about in coma's the doctors say there is no chance the family take them home and care for them there on machines and run up huge debts and 5 years down the line the person wakes from the coma.

My brother died recently in hospital due the numerious mistakes by the hospital in the end he died of blood poisoning and I assume either they could not harvest due to the poison risk or my parents said no because they wanted him whole and not empty. They had already cut various parts out of him, for example his left eye ball due to a infection he got in the hospital months previous.

[what..the?]

For these 'he/she wont survive' reasons I will opt out so not to be pronouced dead too soon. I felt emotional reading wingnuts experience and understand the obvious importance of the donation, but if someone had been pronouced for their harvest possibilities thats just not right.

Even opting out I feel that my choice will not be voiced the paperwork will not go through, and if it does the doctors may acidentally 'lose it' and harvest me before my family know.

I remember in the news years back babies bodies being harvested by doctors without permission and the doctors sewing up and hiding their 'harvest' you have to question even a doctors ethics.