Should people who don't want to donate their organs after death, opt out of it?

Question

Personally I have no objection about my organs being used after my death, but have never picked up a donor card.
The proposal would need provisions in the case of illegal death. To enable the police investigation.
Do you think people should opt out of becoming a organ donor, if they don't want their organs used after their death?

Again I thought the question was clear, but an answerer tells me we don't have to opt out.
HELLO! I never said we did, the question is SHOULD WE.

Answer 1

IT really makes me mad when I see people hanging on waiting for a donor.IT`S hard to believe there is such a shortage of donors ,with so many various deaths from different courses.
The answer to your Q is yes , change the law as soon as possible to allow people to do this .Give the recipients of would be donors organs, a chance

Answer 2

Yes, people should opt out if they feel that compulsory organ donation would:

a: Compromise religious beliefs and cause distress to surviving relatives. I'm thinking about Jehova's Witness views here, I don't know how Muslims/Hindus/Sikhs et al think on this subject;
b: Cause illness in the recipient, perhaps due to the donated organ being infected with a non-apparent disease. For example, my better half cannot give blood because she's affected by hypothyroidism. In the event that she (God forbid) might die as a result of an accident, her condition would not be readily apparent apart from it being noticeable that she's overweight. Would you, as someone waiting for - say - a heart transplant want to be given her heart? You would spend the rest of your renewed life being heavily anaemic and, if you injured yourself you would bleed more heavily than someone who does not have her condition.

If they go for this then I think they will need to put some pretty stringent safeguards in place to protect the rights of the individual and his/her family.

Answer 3

I am not owned by the government who would do well to remember may body is mine and when I die it belongs to my next of kin. Whilst I have no particular objection to my organs being re-used I have a very strong objection to any flaming politician telling me and my next of kin what I/they can do or not do with my body after death> People seem to have forgotten the "Tissue Scandal" at a well known hospital. Safeguards never work so much as i have sympathy for those waiting my answer to any smart a---d politician who tries this on the is old fashioned British suggestion that they go ride themselves
I repeat I am not against organ donation but I am against yet more interference in our lives by the scum in parliament

Answer 4

The latest proposals from Sir Liam Donaldson, the Government Medical Adviser is that we should register our objection to organ donorship or any organs that are usuable will be removed after death for transplant.
This is apparently the system used in several European countries.
On a personal note, they can have anything of mine that is useful, and my family know my wishes.

Answer 5

Unless you mark your ID or make other specific instructions in your will, your resuscitation request or elsewhere that your body can be donated, it will not be. Autopsies and other criminal investigations always supercede donor requests so they will automatically come first. It's not something you "opt out of," it's something you agree to. If you feel very strongly about it you may want to specify in your will or to your family that you DON'T want your organs donated, since in an emergency a hospital may ask your relatives if they can have an organ if it's in very good condition and a special donor situation exists.

Answer 6

i think that throughout the time of determining the allocation of organs to recipients, people who choose out of donating might desire to settle for low precedence. manage organ donation like a mutual society; while you're no longer a member, you do no longer qualify for income. As you have got deduced, i does no longer choose out.

Answer 7

Absolutely. But I think those people should be exempt from ever receiving a donation either. How selfish would you have to be to deny someone a last chance at life because you just "dont like the idea of it".

Answer 8

You are worm bait or charcoal, to save life after you die it's got to be something good.
People who are against it grow up.
Think about that person or person's having a full life after you have gone.
Go see a dead body after 10 days 'you're' sorry there mush.
To give life after death thumbs up.

Bet if it's there life needs saving it's not a problem.

Answer 9

It should be totally free choice, the State does not own my body ,I am not against organ donation

Answer 10

i agree with dollyemu. they are dead and if the organs are needed then they should be able to use them without any questions asked! that's just like throwing money in the toilet just because you dont need it right now. dumb!