To me everyone should be. Think it’s kind of selfish to let viable organs go to waste when people are in need for them.
They switched from opt-in to opt-out a while back here in the UK. They figured that most people don’t care either way, but that most people couldn’t be bothered to sign up for a Donor Card.
I’m kind of in the opposite boat. I have enough self-loathing and lack of desire to continue living on this planet any longer than I have to that I’m not sure I want any part of me to continue existing after brain death.
I didn’t opt-in before, and I feel bad about forcibly opting out, which is, I suppose, what the organ harvesters are counting on, so I haven’t.
Yet.
Freedom of choice, also so people don’t murder others for an organ match
I live in a opt-out system. That means we are all donors unless we explicitly said the contrary.
I have never heard of a murder for an organ match.
Also I think we are the top one or two in the world on organ transplants.
I had hep c. Can’t be a donar.
I’m a donor (woe betide whoever gets anything from me) but I totally understand not being OK with it. This guy says we won’t need them, but that’s unknowable. Maybe there’s a bunch of donors at the gate not being let in until the rest of them gets there. But if ever you have a right to claim ownership over anything, it’s your body. Your organs aren’t collective property others have a right to. You fuck off, these are my organs is a totally reasonable position.
If there is something valuable to extract from you, you best be sure that somebody is going to try to make business out of it.
Are the recipients or hospital going to pay for my funeral? If no, they can get bent. As someone who works in the admin side of healthcare, it’s just Take, take, take from all sides.
In my experience, some of the people that I have met that aren’t organ donors are afraid that the hospitals and doctors will do less to save you if you’re in an accident so that they can use all of your organs to “save” many more people. It’s dumb, but I’ve met a scary amount of folks who believe that.
It’s not entirely unjustified.
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life …
A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone.
That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive.
There’s also the chance you’ll get sold to be blown up
I don’t want to provide any profit incentive for my death. Same reason life insurance makes me uncomfortable as well. It’s not rational.
Some people such as myself can neither be blood nor organ donors because their bodies are undesirable.
Examples: Cancer, Leukemia, HIV, TB, Leiden V Factor, etc.
People with such issues are often incompatible donors.
Also severe allergies. I’ve been told I couldn’t be an organ donor due to anaphylaxis. You can donate blood with heterozygous Leiden V factor though.
I think few people would object to it if they were told it was an option, but the default is “no” in most countries and many people just don’t think to opt in.
Religion
In some US states, it’s opt out when you get ID or drivers license. I think that’s a better way to go about it
I very much agree. Also, in a lot of places, that indicator on your license is not legally binding, the decision still comes down to your next of kin.
A system where everyone is a donor by default, but can opt out in a low-effort manner such as sending off a signed declaration, would still allow those with a genuine desire not to be donors the ability to do so, but would greatly increase the donor pool by capturing the majority of indifferent people who simply have not made the effort to opt in.
I don’t even have an organ. Hell I don’t even know how to play one!
I mean…some organs you do not want. Like my colon. You do NOT want my colon.
Logic says my liver SHOULD be dead by now, but somehow I’ve had no issues. Sooooooo, maybe give it to an alcoholic? Apperently booze has no impact on my liver. How it survived my 20s, I’ll never know.
And my brain??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, sorry. I was just imagining what it would be like if a silverback gorilla decided it wanted to tickle you. Because what are you gonna do? Get tickled by a gorilla, that’s what! Oh, also, my brain is weird. Probably don’t want anyone being given that.
Or cash.
Primitive tribes and increasingly many modern Sky Daddy children think they will need the organs after they die
