Steve Walker wrote
NY wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

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

Your next of kin are the ones that have to live the rest of their lives
with the pictures in their head and the upset that an incomplete body was
buried.

Thats their problem. They should have no say on what happens.

And buried corpses are a stupid way of dealing with the body anyway.

Many will be fine with that, taking solace in the good that came from it,
others will not.

Stiff **** for them.

Family should always have the final say

Wrong.

... *UNLESS* you have made a firm and documented choice beforehand - then
they should not be able to override it. Where your consent has only been
assumed, family *must* retain the final say.

Wrong.