Presumed Consent

[Churchill]

I wonder what will happen once donor cards do not have to be found ??!!

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

[shaunbhoy]

all this new idea is going to do is leave a bunch of people on it who don't want to be, but don't know how to get off......

No, that is very far from all it will achieve. It will also mean that a lot of people desperately in need of lifesaving organs will get their dying wish granted. And of course a few dead stupid people will weigh less in their coffins of course. A fair trade IMHO.

[Sockpuppet]

Anyone else think that this "presumed consent" will make Doctors much like Umbrella company workers.

"I can take any organs I like as I have dispensation, don't need to keep records either".

[Ardesco]

No, that is very far from all it will achieve. It will also mean that a lot of people desperately in need of lifesaving organs will get their dying wish granted. And of course a few dead stupid people will weigh less in their coffins of course. A fair trade IMHO.

How do you know that making the existing database accesible will not provide enough organs to help those who need them? Surely we should start off by making the existing database, or it that too much like common sense?

[shaunbhoy]

Anyone else think that this "presumed consent" will make Doctors much like Umbrella company workers.

"I can take any organs I like as I have dispensation, don't need to keep records either".

Some people clearly think like that, but nobody really worth taking too much notice of. Only the desperately selfish and paranoid ones that read too much George Orwell in their impressionable youth.

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

How do you know that making the existing database accesible will not provide enough organs to help those who need them? Surely we should start off by making the existing database, or it that too much like common sense?

It IS accessible to those who wish to access it. The problem is that most people don't bother as they can't be @rsed. Hence the shortfall in donor organs. Next!

[Ardesco]

It IS accessible to those who wish to access it. The problem is that most people don't bother as they can't be @rsed. Hence the shortfall in donor organs. Next!

OK give me a link to a URL where people can sign up!

[Churchill]

I want to donate organs etc. However, I don't want just any tom, dick or mohammed getting them!

[Ruprect]

It IS accessible to those who wish to access it. The problem is that most people don't bother as they can't be @rsed. Hence the shortfall in donor organs. Next!

And your argument is that rather than address this, perhaps by advertising, door-to-door, school visits etc, to automatically harvest dead people's organs.

It is a personal choice to be a donor and it should remain this way. If anything should be out of reach of the government it should be our own bodies.

[Churchill]

And your argument is that rather than address this, perhaps by advertising, door-to-door, school visits etc, to automatically harvest dead people's organs.

It is a personal choice to be a donor and it should remain this way. If anything should be out of reach of the government it should be our own bodies.

You're a "citizen" now, your body isn't "your" body!