Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France
by jobigoud on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:59AM
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This would render the whole point moot. Why have a default in the first place if you always require an affirmative choice, either from the person or from the family?
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Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France
by ghaff on Monday January 02, 2017 @11:27AM
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That is basically the practical problem with an opt out system. Defaults are sufficiently powerful that lack of an opt out can't really (and really shouldn't) be taken as an affirmative choice.
Re:Organ donation becomes opt-out in France
by x1798DE on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:46PM
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Well, ideally yes you'd just enforce an affirmative choice here, but I think the whole point of having an organ donor registry is for time-critical situations like when you can't find someone to ask or when there is not clear person to ask.