Should organ donation be manditory?

[Shio]

No. My body, my organs. When I'm dead, my will has first rights to decide what happens to my body, followed by my family.

I don't care if someone needs them. That's not my problem.

Wow.

You're just a terrible, selfish person. I could see your point of view up until that last line. I imagine you'd care if you were slowly dying of organ failure because the it would be your problem. Do you really care for others so little?

I personally believe it should be an opt-out system. I agree that it is someone's right to maintain their organs after death, but what purpose does that really serve? In death you could give others life. Not just one person, many people. If you really cared so much about your rights to withhold your organs then you should be able to cobble together the will power to announce it to your doctor.

Hey, if you want the government to own your body until you inform them otherwise, go ahead. I however don't.

And to use someone else's metaphor:

"London Zoo is looking for some fresh meat to feed their animals and they'd quite like your corpse once the organs have been removed. You'd be helping to feed some animals that will die without your help, so we've decided that if you don't want your corpse fed to the hungry tigers, all you have to do is visit London Zoo once before you die.

That's only fair, isn't it? I mean, you wouldn't want those poor animals to die - and you're not using the rest of your body, are you?"

That's cool, yeah? You can opt out if you want. Just go to London Zoo.

Hmm? What's that? You don't want to? Our views on what is right and what is wrong are different? You don't think you should have to go to the Zoo to tell them not to feed your remains to the lions? Interesting how an opt-out system is fine when it's your opt-out system.

 

[Canid117]

I would say on your 16th birthday a mandatory clown should come to your house, give you an organ-shaped cake and ask you if you want to donate or not.

Sir, I'd like to give you a medal for actually managing to creep the hell out of me.

Would the Clown look like this?

They float!

OP: I dunno enough about organ donation to say yay or nay.

 

[Cheesus333]

We really don't have true control or possession of a lot of things in this world. Most of what we own, from the land we live on to the clothes on our back, we get or borrow from someone else. The government even takes your money in the name of benefitting the whole country. There's not a great deal of things outside of our own bodies and minds that we can hold firm and total ownership of.

But please, for the love of God, don't take away our organs unless we give you them. There's a line that you just don't cross with a dead man's possessions, so if he says that he wants his corpse to remain intact, respect his wishes.

I'm not against organ donation whatsoever, and I intend to, um, 'recycle' most of my own when I'm gone, but I completely understand if someone else doesn't and I wouldn't try to force them into it.

The organs of the dead should revert, automatically, to the state (and thus be distributed to the health service in an unbiased fashion) upon death. No opt out, No excuses, Any qualms you have with Organ donation are fortunately trumped by "People will die if you don't".

After the funeral The body should also become state property as cadavers are severely in-demand medical training tools. You may as well be burying medical text books when you bury bodies.

This is quite a disturbing post, to be honest... especially the comparison between dead human beings and books. I wouldn't want to go through life knowing that what I leave behind will be the shell of myself for learning doctors to have a poke at. Sure, volunteering yourself for medical research and such is fine if that's what you want to do, but I don't think we should just assume cooperation of the terminal or deceased.

 

[ultimateownage]

However, are you saying that it should be mandatory after death or during life? Call me selfish, but during life I want to keep my organs intact.

This is what I first thought:
Probably posted by someone else, but oh well.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Making organ donation mandatory seems more than a little draconian when all you really need to do is create a meaningful incentive for people to sign up for organ donation in the first place. The first step would be to place the potential organ donors themselves on top of the list of those people who would be first in line to receive an organ should they find themselves in need of one. Give people with more years listed as organ donors seniority on the list over people who've been signed up for less and you've created conditions where you'd have to be stupid not to sign up for organ donation.

As for people willing to receive organs when they need them but not sign up to donate them when they don't? If they're not below the age of majority, then I say fuck em'.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

sweet christ the idiocy in this thread is painfull

of course organ donation should be mandatory! people who object to it are completely illogical and selfish who would take someone else's organ to save their on ass in a heartbeat

 

[C95J]

Although I myself have no problems with donating organs, I believe that a person has the sole rights to their own body, so if they don't want to donate, they don't have to.

 

[DarkRyter]

As much as I wish it were the case, that wouldn't be right.

I know there are people who need and deserve organs. And I approve of anyone who will give them that chance.

But I understand that there are those who don't want to save lives, whether they're dogmatic followers of a certain faith, or are mere misanthropes.

Having the freedom to do good also means having the freedom not to.

 

[Jakub324]

I agree. Aside form anything else, it's just selfish to keep something you can't use, unless you're religious. I agree that there should be an opt-out system.

 

[Tib088]

I have a doner card, and I think more people should carry them

 

[UnendingLight]

It may sound like paranoia, but I'd rather not be killed because someone wants my organs.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

It's just that in an opt-out system, 'can't be arsed' is, as a choice, beneficial to your fellow man.

Because, as we've seen with Euthanasia, opting-out can be curtailed or even ignored.

Opting in, however, is much harder to curtail.

 

[fer-]

what scares me the most are the people in this thread that seem to honestly think they know better and should be allowed to make decisions for everyone else

please never hold public office because we have enough elitist people in office that think they know better and try to make decisions for people hiding behind rhetoric like 'its for the common good' or 'people are idiots we need to do this despite them'

if you honestly think that _you_ know better about what to do with my body (or money) then _I_ do you scare the hell out of me!

 

[bombadilillo]

Not mandatory, but whould be opt-out vs opt-in. Should boost the number of donaters nicely.

 

[TheEndlessSleep]

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Hey, if you want the government to own your body until you inform them otherwise, go ahead. I however don't.

And to use someone else's metaphor:

"London Zoo is looking for some fresh meat to feed their animals and they'd quite like your corpse once the organs have been removed. You'd be helping to feed some animals that will die without your help, so we've decided that if you don't want your corpse fed to the hungry tigers, all you have to do is visit London Zoo once before you die.

That's only fair, isn't it? I mean, you wouldn't want those poor animals to die - and you're not using the rest of your body, are you?"

That's cool, yeah? You can opt out if you want. Just go to London Zoo.

Hmm? What's that? You don't want to? Our views on what is right and what is wrong are different? You don't think you should have to go to the Zoo to tell them not to feed your remains to the lions? Interesting how an opt-out system is fine when it's your opt-out system.

You're just presuming that he will not like the idea of being eaten by lions because you don't...

This metaphor is no different to the issue. If somebody thinks that people shouldn't care what happens to them when they are dead, then suggesting that something horrific will happen to their DEAD body will not phase such a person.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Sorry, your "reasons" are your own. I find it inherently distasteful that a government will have control over my body by default.

Who are you to decide how I should fell about my body, dead or otherwise?

You have the right to do whatever you want with your body as long as it does not inteerfer with the well being of others. Refusing to donate after death interfers with the well being of other. Your right to freedom of expression and speech does not cover that.

 

[A Curious Fellow]

Where's the poll?

OT: yes.

 

[PettingZOOPONY]

No, there are plenty of bums and runaways to use for parts, and kids that want Ipad 2.

 

[WittyName]

I am in no way against organ donation, and am currently is the process of signing up for it.

However, I don't believe that it should be an opt-out or mandatory system.
Personally, I'd like to think I'd made the choice myself to volunteer to help someone after I die.

 

[TobiasFunke]

I agree I don't understand how everyone is not an organ donor!