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Mandatory Organ Donor

Why Is This Idea Important?: I think that most people think that being organ donors is a good idea but they don't take the initiative to become donors. This will make organs more widely available and will hopefully bring costs down.

I think that instead of people opting to be organ donors it should just be assumed that people are organ donors, and then they can opt out of being organ donors if they really feel strongly about it. I know that I always mean to fill out the organ donor form when I get my drivers license but I usually forget.

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Submitted by chackothehalfbreed 3 years ago

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  1. havenchsc

    I believe that this proposal should be especially acceptable to the Right to Life believers because it would permit some dying people to have their lives extended

    3 years ago
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  2. Bryan Rosander

    We still need the option to opt out.

    3 years ago
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  3. d1doherty

    Perhaps this idea would be more appropriately titled

    "Opt out Organ Donation" since the current system is opt-in, and your are not really saying it should be mandatory. In countries where they use the "Opt-out" system the rate of organ donation appears to be greater. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/08/f-transplant.html

    3 years ago
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  4. phreedomphan

    Bull!!! If you're too lazy to fill out the forms, then you don't care about organ donation. Forcing people to "opt out" is wrong. Nobody has a right to take someone else's organs without express permission.

    I'd like to know what the difference is between taking a kidney from a dead person and giving it to a person who needs it to live and taking a thigh from a dead person and feeding it to a starving person who needs it to live.

    I'll never forget how that poor black man conveniently died so that the late Gov. Casey of PA could be bumped up to the front of the line and receive his organs.

    3 years ago
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