Presumed Consent

[xoggoth]

One should be able to specify who the organs will be used for. I still carry the donor card in my wallet, it has on the back, "Except politicians and civil servants"

I did want to add lots of others like common people, foreign people, foxhunters, toffee nosed gits, religious people etc etc but there was not enough room.

Ps I don't know why we don't just send the bodies to butchers' shops and stop killing so many nice little animals.

[Ardesco]

I'm still waiting for that link Shaunbhoy.....

[shaunbhoy]

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

www.uktransplant.org.uk

NEXT!!

[TimberWolf]

Would the consenting conscripted here also go for being experimented on by medial students and having your innards strung from one end of a film studio to another by the mad German guy?

[shaunbhoy]

Would the consenting conscripted here also go for being experimented on by medial students and having your innards strung from one end of a film studio to another by the mad German guy?

Why the fixation with hanging on to your innards etc. after you are dead? What is it that people imagine they are useful for short of making coffins heavier?

[sasguru]

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

Careful. If you needed an organ (and trust me you do) you wouldn't really care if it came from Tom Dick or Mohammed.

[TimberWolf]

Why the fixation with hanging on to your innards etc. after you are dead? What is it that people imagine they are useful for short of making coffins heavier?

Many things. If we were more practically minded we would make glue out of the sinews, chairs out of the skin, run cars on the fat and serve the protein up in school dinners, or at least in kebabs. But people generally form a stronger emotional attachment to the object that they were in their lives. It's just the impractical side of being human.

[shaunbhoy]

Many things. If we were more practically minded we would make glue out of the sinews, chairs out of the skin, run cars on the fat and serve the protein up in school dinners, or at least in kebabs. But people generally form a stronger emotional attachment to the object that they were in their lives. It's just the impractical side of being human.

Yes I can see the third way emerging from your points TimberWolf. Perhaps a compromise might be to have a 3-tier system whereby one can choose between leaving your body to medical science, burning/burying as applicable, or giving the corpses to IKEA for their new organic furniture range.
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[Ardesco]

www.uktransplant.org.uk

NEXT!!

Not bad only took you an hour and a half....

For your next task show me an advert that lets the great unwashed know this URI so that they can sign up.

[shaunbhoy]

Not bad only took you an hour and a half....

For your next task show me an advert that lets the great unwashed know this URI so that they can sign up.

Some of us have work to do. It took seconds once I started searching. However this is not the only means of joining the current system. I'm surprised you didn't know...........or then again perhaps I'm not. Therein lies the problem with the current system.
Now, as I have answered your questions perhaps you would be so kind as to give me some cogent reasons why our organs should not be routinely recycled for the benefit of our fellow human beings once dead?