On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 21:38:38 -0000, Tim+ wrote:

NY wrote:
"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.

Um, no you dont. You can express your wishes to your next of kin about
what happens to your body but once youre brain dead, but your next of kin
dont have to follow those wishes. They are empowered to make decisions
about you when you are no longer able to do so.

What backwards way first country do you live in? If you wrote something before you were brain dead, that overrides everything.

Many a kidney has gone to the crematorium that the owner wanted to be
donated but the next of kin declined.

The next of kin should be killed to harvest their kidneys, see how they like that.