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Should organ donation be compulsory?
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Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
No. I think asking everyone if they would like to be designated a donor when the get licensed to drive is adequate. People ought to be able to NOT be donors for any reason. It is their organs and tissue.
Requiring donor status to receive is also problematic. For how long ought someone be a designated donor before they are an eligible recipient. The transplant process does not need additional complications imo.
Requiring donor status to receive is also problematic. For how long ought someone be a designated donor before they are an eligible recipient. The transplant process does not need additional complications imo.
badandwicked
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I think you should have to opt out rather than opt in.
Bardeaux
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Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
Beyond Jehova's Witnesses, a lot of Orthodox Jews and Native Americans are not organ donors for religious reasons. I don't think religious reasons should be the only reasons we allow people to not be donors. Its a gift a person chooses to make. Compulsory organ donation seems wrong to me no matter what a persons reason for not donating.
I always wondered why someone would refuse to be a donor![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
in the US you have the option to place a government issued sticker on your driver's license signifying you are an organ donor. however, i have heard some people comment that they didn't do it because they felt, if they were critically injured, the medical staff would be more interested in harvesting their organs than aggressively treating their wounds.
it's not the same as refusal obviously, but i wonder if that's a common thought... and because, in such a situation, time is probably pretty critical for harvesting healthy organs, people that would otherwise be good (and willing) candidates for organ donation are not.
webbykevin
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I have an organ donor card, but i'm not filling it in so it can be reused after I die.
purple_cloud
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I think it is a pretty common thought. I haven't given it much thought myself since I have quite a while until I have to renew my license...but in the chance of a very critical situation, I don't know if my license would be the first thing they look at when trying to save my life. Time is critical in both the saving and harvesting and transporting and the rest of the situations that go along with either injured or healthy organs when they aren't doing what they would be normally in the body, so it really is of the essence.
I haven't filled anything out but have no issues donating my organs...clearly, they would not be doing me any good any longer, so there is no reason they can't help someone else. However, a few of them are probably already in questionable shape by my young age of 23, so I'm not exactly sure who would want them. I'm also sure if any of my immediate family were contacted if something happened to me and asked if they could have some organs, no one would have any issues for denying them, particularly since it's not important to my family's religious beliefs at all.
I don't particularly agree with the artificial extension of life. Death is a natural process, one which we should embrace and not something to be fearful of. I wouldn't want to receive an organ transplant, or be kept alive by machine for that matter, so I don't particularly agree with my organs being used for somebody else to shy away from the inevitable.
It shouldn't be compulsory. A donation is a choice made by the donor. Without choice, it is simply coercion - a tax that would go beyond mere money. Flesh as payment for the "debt" owed by living in one's society. Few ideas scare me, but that one provokes an unmistakable discomfort.
That said, I find the number of fence-sitters on this issue appalling, and agree that the system should be opt-out rather than opt-in.
That said, I find the number of fence-sitters on this issue appalling, and agree that the system should be opt-out rather than opt-in.
i'm also a full donor, like portillo
that's fucked up, to even worry about such a thing.
but to answer the question, no, it should not be compulsory. people should have a right to choose, and it means so much more when they do.
that's fucked up, to even worry about such a thing.
but to answer the question, no, it should not be compulsory. people should have a right to choose, and it means so much more when they do.
voxmystic
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Because it creeps me out. Both donating and receiving. And especially the idea of being dissected by students. It just seems so disrespectful! Can't really say why I feel that way. It's not religious, just my own personal aversion.I always wondered why someone would refuse to be a donor
Obviously, I don't think it should be compulsory. Heck, I refuse to even pee in a cup.
vegan
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the question doesn't have to do with fear of death (yours or others')
people who know a potential receiver may not want him to die
not because of fear
maybe because they like him; because he has a positive influence on others' lives; his kids need him; etc.
what decides if the end of life was more artificial than its extension would be?
some die in car accidents when they're 10
few would call it natural deaths
getting a kidney is not more atificial than eating factory processed food
yet eating pizzas is not considered artificially extending one's life
there is no basis for the word "artificial"
are robots artificial because humans made them?
then what about a steel rod?
a wooden table?
a stick split in 2 by a human holding an axe?
a stick split in 2 by a human holding a rock?
a stick split in 2 by the fall of a human?
a stick split in 2 by the fall of a rock moved by the wind?
yes
in many (most?) countries, people don't even know what they have to do to be donors
and so they're not. because they didn't go to the hospital to ask for it
once they're dead...
...
... no, really
i don't see it
will the zombie refuse?
or will its family sue over the ownership of the worms that will soon exist in place of said organs?
voxmystic
Bluelighter
Absolutely. When my infant daughter died, I would have KILLED anyone who cut her precious body and removed any part of her. Let the worms do their thing.