Organ donation
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 11:13 pm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-citizens-organ-donors-france-opt-out-donation-hospital-healthcare-doctors-a7508576.html
So France has adopted an "opt-out policy" on organ donation, meaning that consent is presumed unless you actively register on a "No"-list. This has caused a debate on the issue in other countries as well, and has made a lot of people furious.
Personally, although the idea of people harvesting my would-be corpse for organs seems a little freaky, I would not object to it. Considering that they would either decompose in the ground or be turned to ashes anyway, there really is no reason to take them with me into the grave. I think that the people objecting to this are more than a little silly, and it amuses me somewhat that people seem to be more up in arms about what happens to their dead flesh after death than about the myriad indignancies and restrictions of our liberties that we are suffering during life (taxes, regulations, etc.).
I think that people who refuse to donate organs should not expect receive any.
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe there are rational reasons to be opposed to this?
So France has adopted an "opt-out policy" on organ donation, meaning that consent is presumed unless you actively register on a "No"-list. This has caused a debate on the issue in other countries as well, and has made a lot of people furious.
Personally, although the idea of people harvesting my would-be corpse for organs seems a little freaky, I would not object to it. Considering that they would either decompose in the ground or be turned to ashes anyway, there really is no reason to take them with me into the grave. I think that the people objecting to this are more than a little silly, and it amuses me somewhat that people seem to be more up in arms about what happens to their dead flesh after death than about the myriad indignancies and restrictions of our liberties that we are suffering during life (taxes, regulations, etc.).
I think that people who refuse to donate organs should not expect receive any.
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe there are rational reasons to be opposed to this?