In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:41:24 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote:

On 19/02/2021 22:22, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:39:42 -0000, "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 don’t care if you have some crazy religion.

Not only that, someone should go through all the caskets removing any
jewelry that might have been foolishly buried with you or your fellow
dead poeple.

In my mother-in-law's case, that was supposed to happen, but didn't. My
wife had always said that she wasn't bothered about anything else, but
she wanted her parents rings when they died. She has her father's, but
the undertaker made a mistake, didn't record a note to remove the rings
and buried her mother's with her.

That is a shame.

I wasn't thinking of that. I had in mind some govenment guy who could
go through caskets even when they wanted to be buried with their
jewelry.

I carried a kidney donor card since 1969, 52 years, and now I carry an
organ donor card, but I still think it's grave robbing to take organs
from people who didn't agree to it in advance and whose next of kin
doesn't authorize it.

(I'm also a registered bone marrow donor, but they never called me and
now they say I'm too old. My marrow seems to be working for me, so I
don't know why it wouldn't be good for someone else. )