If they do change the law so that everyone is an organ donor unless they opt out...?

Question

Should the people who opt out be eligable to receive someone else's donated organ?

Have they considered this at all?

Answer 1

I doubt it will ever be changed. There are too many objections to this.

I would think that any legislators who approve this will not be re-elected.

Answer 2

This is a very good question and I must admit that it had never occurred to me before. I think that people can change their minds and that someone who did receive a donated organ would probably opt in, along with other members of the family, out of gratitude. This is analagous to blood donations. As a long term blood donor, I have noticed that in Britain it is mainly Caucasians who give blood and yet recipients are very often people of other races. Admittedly, some people would be excluded anyway, because of the preliminary questionnaires, but there are some diseases mainly affecting people from other continents which call for regular blood donations and one wonders why the relatives of sufferers are not more proactive themselves in giving blood. For example, blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anaemia are most likely to be effective if the transfused blood is from a donor of a particular ethnic origin. Blood from Afro Caribbean, African or Middle Eastern donors has different proteins—antigens—on its surface than blood from Caucasian donors. The point I am making is, that it is our tradition to give without thought of who the donor is or whether the donor is, in our view, deserving.

Answer 3

i have opted to be an organ donor for my husband as he needs a kidney, within the next couple of months he will have it. It wasnt until then that i really thought about it, then when the situation arose, there was no other decission for me. But i dont think that anyone has the right to say that you have to donate an organ if it is against your wishes or as a matter of fact who recieves it. I think that it should be the neediest person who gets it first.

Answer 4

Yes they would be unless they said they didnt want a donation.
Eveyone is entitled to the best medical care and this includes organ donation if needed. It wouldnt matter if they had opted out of the donation scheme

Answer 5

I am sure that they have, but I would still maintain that it is your body, and you should be the one to decide what happens to it, and that they have no implied right to bits of it as they see fit. Who would decide whether or not non donors should receive a transplant, the donor or the Government? I don't think that we should have a two tier system, might create an awkward precedent.

Answer 6

It's a difficult one to answer, the way I see it is that everyone is entitle to the best available medical treatment, weather they are an organ donor or not. But I do understand were you are coming from. Again it's a very difficult question to answer.

Answer 7

Princess you are being a little vindictive and your not equating with the terrified feeling that some folk have of part of their body being taken out on the mortuary table.these same people would have no qualms otherwise to think they are giving someone a chance to live so to make them not illegible should by chance they needed a transplant is very mean//and with some folk religion enters into this

Answer 8

I do not belong to the Government it belongs to me and it is time they got that straight. Whilst I have no basic objection I think it is for my family to decide not some bloody politician so if this law comes in I will opt out, in order that my family can decide. They will privately have my permission but HMG can go and chase themselves .

Answer 9

Perhaps it should simply cost them more if they aren't willing to be an organ donor themselves? Or maybe we can just write it off as "different strokes" and hope that, either way, there will be more donor organs out there.

Answer 10

My organ donor wishes are quiet clear about what I want them to be able to harvest and what I wish to be buried (if burial is still allowed when I die) with still inside me.

Why should anyone have the right to over-rule what I decided?

What will happen next?! My lawyer decides he doesn't like what's in my will and over-rules that?

No, the law is fine as it is. This means that your question, in my humble opinion is rather a mute point.

Answer 11

No and hell no. till we knowingly supply consent to be an Organ donor it would be presumed that we don't supply consent. any incorrect way of doing that's morbid, evil and creepy.