[Kegger]

For readability:

Automatically make each of us "donors" unless we signed a form saying "no" in advance.

[teeman8r]

You can always opt out, it is the potential python sketch that scares me... When they come for a liver that i am already using

Other than that i am game for it... And have opted in already

[Chickensoup]

Lots of money to be made in them there parts.

I will “donate” when the docs and nurses donate their time, when the hospitals donate their facilities and services.

Otherwise it is a moneymaking scheme like “donating” blood.

[stockpirate]

“Fascism” the new American way.

[ClearCase_guy]

There was a recent thread about ISIS taking organs from the living even if it killed them.

The devil is at work with all of this.

[fatnotlazy]

I’m an organ donor — opted in when I obtained my state ID card — but I don’t like these “you’re in unless you opt out” schemes. Bad enough I get that with my credit card when it sells my info to assorted vendors.

Donating organs should be a personal decision. And for some it’s not an option because their religion prohibits it. For those people, this scheme sounds a bit discriminatory to me.

[anton]

Everyone makes a fortune except the donor. System sucks. Same for blood.

[mrs. a]

Just posting for information’s sake. Decisions are up to you.

http://www.lifeguardianfoundation.org/

[IronJack]

You don’t own that liver, you know.

[RFEngineer]

I choose to make that decision based on the best information provided to me, or my next-of-kin based on the situation at hand.

I would never trust a doctor, who may be advocating for a patient that is not you, to make this decision.

After that, the only condition I would consider donating is if an organ were actually being transplanted into a patient in need.

I will not consider any part of me becoming a plaything for medical researchers, unless they pay me ahead of time, which they won’t do.

I’m afraid that means I’ll go into the ashcan at the end - every part of me.

Anyone who thinks government and the medical profession can be trusted to be ethical in a “auto opt-in” system is delusional. They cannot be trusted.

[pa_dweller]

My decision to opt out was cemented by this recent thread on which it was mentioned that if your driver's license denotes you as a donor it increases the likelihood of you being deemed a vegetable, and thus harvestable, even though you're not really that close to death's door.

[big bad easter bunny]

I thought maybe everyone has to sign a form, if you choose not to donate then you become banned to receive a donation as well.

[wiggen]

nice idea. i am awaiting a kidney myself.

[BruceS]

All of your organs belong to the collective. You will (literally) be assimilated.

[nightmarewhileawake]

Now I’m not sure if I want to be a donor any more.
Question ?? Can you have IV sedation anesthesia while they harvest your organs?? Imagine the pain if you really weren’t “brain dead.”