New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Explicit Opt-Out (2020)

Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl... by rwmj on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:17AM (#26922946)

> I’m not a bag of parts that belongs to an all powerful state.

Aside from the fact that this statement is wrong - the state can conscript you if there's a war, or imprison you - I'm wondering what actual objection you have to donating parts of your body after you are dead? Personally speaking once I'm dead, I'm not going to care in the slightest.

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Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl... by Lio on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:41AM (#26923068)

I have no objection to organ donation at all.

I think the idea that someone might see with my eyes after my death to be a beautiful one and I’ve been a lifelong card carrying organ donor.

I object to presumed consent.

A gift is not a gift if it’s not freely given.

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Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl... by sammax on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:03AM (#26923459)

Sounds a bit like you weren't an organ donor because it's the right thing but because it makes you feel good. And now that good feeling is taken away from you because everyone is an organ donor by default and you're not doing anything special anymore.

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Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl... by Lio on Saturday April 24, 2021 @05:44AM (#26923621)

Does it? I think you’re twisting my words a bit there.

My aim was simply to answer the parent’s claim that I might have an issue with organ transplant and that’s not the case.

> because it’s the right thing

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so”

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