Organ donation-Yay or nay?

Organ donation should be opt out not opt in, you don't agree with then you're anti-life and morally up yourself. Truth of the matter is you don't need them when you're dead, why deny a life to someone in desperate need of something you don't have any use for any more?
Anyone who disagrees is ****, religion or no religion (in fact, using religion as an excuse not to is even more ridiculous).

No, but only to a point and only to blood related family

Organ donation should be opt out not opt in, you don't agree with then you're anti-life and morally up yourself. Truth of the matter is you don't need them when you're dead, why deny a life to someone in desperate need of something you don't have any use for any more?
Anyone who disagrees is ****, religion or no religion (in fact, using religion as an excuse not to is even more ridiculous).

I became an organ donor around a month ago and seemed pretty indifferent about it. I told my rents and my dad shrugged it off but my mum was like 'Okay, but I can over ride that decision.'

I signed up because if I was unfortunate enough to need an organ I'd like it before I died, so why not be the donor?

Well anyway, I just want to hear your views on organ donation, are you against it, or do you embrace it?

Reasons please.

how old do you have to be to sign up for that?

It's a common misconception that an opt out system would increase donation numbers. Next of kin can still veto the donation in an opt out system, nowhere in the world has a hardline system which takes the wishes of the deceased over the living relative's wishes. Currently, transplant coordinators use the fact that the deceased has registered their wish to donate to try and talk round next of kin who veto, as very few people would go against the wishes of a loved one.

With an opt out system that diplomacy tool is completely removed, and even worse relatives can assume that their relatives disagreed with donation and just didn't have time to register. So it can actually result in a decrease in donation, especially if a change of system brings out the nay sayers with negative PR (activists for freedom of choice and conspiracy theorists in particular). And judging from this thread, quite a few people are mis-informed when it comes to transplantation. For an Opt Out system to work the society as a whole needs to be accepting of organ donation, and if they were it would probably mean more registered donors in an opt in system anyway. Because of that, I think any change of donation systems is really an issue for a referendum, that way it's the public who vote it in and not the "evil government who want to defy your human rights and steal your organs".


People in favour of Opt Out systems often reference how Spain has much better donation statistics than the UK. The problem is Spain doesn't have a law on wearing seatbelts. No seatbelts + a car crash = Severed brain stem = donation. The type of death that can lead to a donation is actually very specific, so public health and safety issues have a massive impact on donation numbers, much more so than any opt out system would have.

I thought that it was 18, but word on this thread is any age, but if you're <18 you need a parent's permission.

Oh, perhaps giving them a call?

I'm not too sure what else to do, sorry.