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Re:Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system by VikingCoder on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:58PM (#23252420)
"Medical errors kill almost 100000 Americans a year" [1]

You're picking one horror story because it fits your parameters, and pretending it's something to worry about. It's not. Cheers.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117251/

Re:Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system by anslq on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:05PM (#23252503)
I'm not aware that a medical procedure is opt-out, I always assumed it was voluntary.

Unlike this state mandated organ seizure, if you haven't heard the news and opt-out of yet another thing.

Re:Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system by crooked-v on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:16PM (#23252619)
There are about a million other things done to dead bodies that will kill a mistakenly-identified-as-dead person as stone dead as removing an organ, so organ donation specifically doesn't really have a special status here outside of it being potentially the first item on the long checklist.
Re:Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system by VikingCoder on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:07AM (#23258499)
Emergency procedures are often done without consent. Because patients are often unconscious and cannot give consent. Just like in your story.