Organs, opt-in or opt-out?

[matnatz]

I was discussing organ donors with my family. It seems to me that not using the organs of a dead person to possibly save a living person makes no sense. They didn't agree with me. I will donate my organs when I die, I don't even have to think about it. But they thought different. The idea of a loved being mutilated after death disturbed them, but I don't understand why. After all, the body is now dead, it's compost. It's either going to be buried or cremated. Why should somebody else, who could otherwise have lived, die because the family of the dead person is so attached to the body?

I totally support the opt-out method, rather than the current opt-in method. It will save lives, and living people are more important than those who are dead. The more organs, the better.

What do you think?

 

[JanatUrlich]

opt-out!

People who don't want their organs to be used are either crazy religious nuts or selfish bastards

 

[koichan]

opt-out!

People who don't want their organs to be used are either crazy religious nuts or selfish bastards

pretty much this. (though i'd have worded it a bit more politely )

Seems to me from what i've seen, that the vast majority of people with strong views on the subject are those that don't want to donate and that those are in the minority.

Makes sense to me to have the side with the strongest views opt-out, as general apathy stops most people opting-in

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Opt-out. No one gives a shit about you're opinion once your dead. Hell, I don't give a shit about most living people's opinions.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

Opt out, assuming there is an afterlife, you aren't gonna need the shell that carries your soul after death are you

 

[Kytheraen]

Opt out, definately.

 

[Motti]

Opt-out. That way the people too lazy to fill in the form donate their organs anyway.
Personally I'm going to donate my organs, I'm not going to need them.

 

[El Poncho]

Opt out but I won't tell my doctors because that is taking chances, I will have my family tell them after I die

 

[FalloutJack]

Two things which make me opt out for organ doning. (Three, if you count Monty Python.)

First, I plan to explode when I die, so you'd have little use of charred bits.

Second, failing that, I am going to will my parts away to professional necromancy after a New Orleans funeral to Baron Samadi.

 

[Combined]

In my opinion, every persons request to preserve his or her body as it is should be respected and not in any way controlled, regardless of the fact that he has ceased to be. If a person doesn't want to donate organs, he shouldn't be forced to donate organs.

However, if said person didn't clarify either way, his organs should be harvested and used as currency.

Also, I'm not giving anyone my organs, because they're all metal and full of various chemicals and acids. It's good to be a robot.

 

[Aac18]

Most definitely Opt-out, when your dead you have no need of your organs while others do. Denying people access to them is purely selfish.

 

[A random person]

Opt-out, definitely. What use are your organs to you when you're dead? They should be used to save lives, no good will come of keeping them.

Hell, I'd take it further and say if a woman has an abortion, it should go towards stem cell research, but I'm overly logical like that.

 

[strength of 7 men]

opt-out, if you don't need them anymore then there's no reason why they shouldn't be used to save someone who does need them!

 

[razer17]

Opt-out, definitely. What use are your organs to you when you're dead? They should be used to save lives, no good will come of keeping them.
Hell, I'd take it further and say if a woman has an abortion, it should go towards stem cell research, but I'm overly logical like that.

random people always give the right answers.

 

[A random person]

Opt-out, definitely. What use are your organs to you when you're dead? They should be used to save lives, no good will come of keeping them.
Hell, I'd take it further and say if a woman has an abortion, it should go towards stem cell research, but I'm overly logical like that.

random people always give the right answers.

And that's why we're awesome.

 

[Elivercury]

Hmmm I have a slightly different opinion. I'm unsure why Opt-out is donating organs, i thought they'd be the other way around But yeah, i would choose Opt-in.

I originally was a fan of being on a Donor register, but i'm unsure i trust them to try as hard to save my life if thats the case. I mean, if i end up in the same hospital as the prime minister, we're both in rough shape and i'm an organ match, do you think for a second they'd respect the chance i'd have to live?

I'm aware it's obviously a far out example, but it's a nagging doubt at the back of my mind over it.

Besides, I have already told my family that i want to donate my organs after i die anyway, so the can give permission after I've snuffed it and that way i get the best of both worlds.

 

[matnatz]

Hell, I'd take it further and say if a woman has an abortion, it should go towards stem cell research, but I'm overly logical like that.

I agree actually. You only live once.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Donate. You don't need them anymore.

opt-out!

People who don't want their organs to be used are either crazy religious nuts or selfish bastards

Totally agree.

 

[XJ-0461]

Just to clarify, people saying "opt-out" mean that unless you say no, the organs from your body will be donated? Because if so, that makes more sense that the "opt-in" method.

 

[reaper_2k9]

I myself am an organ donor, my family had no problem with this. I feel that after im dead if I can help someone to live on after im gone then that's awesome. I;ll be dead wtf do my organs matter to me.