Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by rjsw on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:55AM
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Organ donation is now opt-out in the UK.
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by toyg on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:00PM
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ah wow, thanks, i see - from last year. Opt-out here: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/do-n...
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by Nexxxeh on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:16PM
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Neither of those are about organ donation.
If you think that doctors aren't likely to do their level best to save your life and to act in your best interests, you surely have larger problems that you, being braindead at the time, having your organs potentially used to save the lives of others?
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by toyg on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:32PM
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They are about organ misuse, which these days would likely include donations (less common at the time).
>you surely have larger problems
Maybe, but that's one more incentive, and not a small one either. Even the definition of "braindead" is somewhat controversial in many circumstances, nowadays, with doctors having the power to make some pretty radical choices - occasionally even against the explicit wishes of patient and family.
Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ...
by novaRom on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:37AM
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Birmingham Children's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool had also given thymus glands, removed from live children during heart surgery, to a pharmaceutical company for research in return for financial donations.
Sadly these fears in the UK are well-founded:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
* https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/missing...
There were quite a few other similar scandals, particularly in England. The medical profession in this country, for a very long time, has had a remarkable contempt for the lives of people, probably steeped in the classism and elitism traditionally entrenched in university education in Britain. This might be different today (Alder Hey, in particular, triggered new legislation about organ handling in 2004), but it's hard to shake off such a history.
I used to carry a organ-donor card and I'm probably still on some register somewhere, but over the last decade I've kinda soured on the idea. As a clear outsider and a bit of a loner, living in the downtrodden North of England, there would likely be nobody who would oppose an over-eager doctor from pulling the plug on me without even trying to help first, just so that a few waiting lists can be shortened and he can look good with his boss.