"NY" wrote in message
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"Tim+" wrote in message
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NY wrote:
Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news Scotland and Canada are (thinking of) changing to "opt out" for organ
donation. Why? Why not just make it mandatory? You're dead, you
don't
need those organs. Why waste the doctor's time on paperwork? Why
murder
someone after your death who could have been saved by your body parts?
And
no I dont care if you have some crazy religion.

Organ donation should still be optional, but with two provisos:

- the assumption is that unless you are on record as saying no, it
should be
presumed that you agree to donate

- your next of kin has no right to countermand your wishes and withhold
their permission even though you have said that you want to donate:
their
permission should not even be sought



Legally they have all the rights. Once youre dead (or brain dead) you
have
no rights.

But you have the right to determine what will happen to your body in the
same way that a will directs how you want your money to be distributed.

Correct.

I'm not sure what the legal position is if the executor that you have
appointed decides to to completely disregard your will

They arent allowed to do that.

- is that an offence?

They arent allowed to do that.

(I'm ignoring the cases where there are statutory obligations to make
provision for children etc, and your will excludes them or "cuts them off
with a ha'penny", or where someone is judged to be ineligible to inherit
because they have murdered you and would be profiting by their crime.)

What is the earthly point of people choosing to be on the organ donor
register if a relative can come along and countermand it? You might as
well not have chosen to donate if they can disregard you.

If the law currently requires the NoK to be consulted and to be given
right of veto, then the law should be changed so the deceased's wishes are
honoured *by definition* rather than with NOK's permission.