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France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com)
Laura June, reporting for The Outline: France began to use a new opt-out system of organ donation on Jan. 1, making it one of a large number of European nations that now use a "presumed consent" system. This means that any adult who dies will now donate their organs by default, regardless of their survivors' wishes, unless they have signed a refusal registry in advance. The new law gets around what has historically been a stumbling block for organ donation: the surviving families of the deceased. A survey in France previously showed that while up to 80 percent of the population was in favor of donating their own organs, about 40 percent of families refuse when pressed to make the choice.
I just don't get the mentality of people who refuse organ donation. If you're dead, you're dead, why take other people with you?
The concern is not "If you're dead". The concern is, If i'm in critical condition, the hospital that knows I'm a potential organ donor
may treat me differently in a manner that makes me less likely to survive, Or they may prematurely declare me dead out of concern for
the organs they could get from me to save someone else..... perhaps someone they deem "More worthy" of being saved.
I'd rather them not turn me off prematurely just so they can steal my organs, thanks.
Cases in point: http://legalpublication.blogsp...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/or...
And here's the icing on the cake: http://www.melissacaulk.com/th...
I'll just leave this here form the article:
"In a shocking statement, Dr. Neil Lazar, Director of the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care unit at Toronto General Hospital, says the focus should be on the well-being of donors rather than whether they are legally dead. That could mean giving anesthetics during organ harvesting.
He and his co-authors, Dr. Maxwell J. Smith of the University of Toronto, and David Rodriguez-Arias of Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain, advocate replacing the current “dead-donor rule” with a policy that educates the public about the true nature of patients used in transplants, obtain informed consent from everyone — and ensure the donor does not suffer during the organ harvesting. The study was published in the American Journal of Bioethics.
The authors state frankly that under current practices donors may be technically still alive when organs are harvested – a necessary condition to produce healthy, living organs. Because of this, they say that protocol requiring a donor’s death is “dangerously misleading,” and could overlook the well-being of the donor who may still be able to suffer during the harvesting procedure.
All I know is that if I need anesthetics while they are ripping me apart, I might have a few concerns about whether I am dead or not.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Do you have a link to that data? A quick Google turned up nothing.
Personally I'm more concerned with being kept alive too long. The last thing I want is to live in pain or unable to move.
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