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Should organ donation be made compulsory?

543 sats \ 22 comments \ @Aardvark 24 Feb AskSN

You're dead so it shouldn't matter, but going against someone's wishes after they're dead to take their organs seems a bit ghoulish...

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 13h

No. It has to be the person who chooses what yo do with his body while living and when dead. Sometimes it can be just the religious other faith that doesn't allow, but laws are beyond them.

70 sats \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 22h

I think it’s a waste of a good body part. But I know some people have cultural or religious things that they can’t so it’s hard to force it should be opt in I guess but more encouraged

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 21h

I hadn't considered the cultural reasons. That makes pretty good sense.

49 sats \ 0 replies \ @rblb 23h

they will kill you to harvest organs for the 1%.. so, no...

193 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 23h

No, your body is part of your estate and the state is not inherently entitled to it.

As will almost all of these questions, markets fix this. If the medical sector just acted normal and purchased their organs from willing sellers, we wouldn't need to ponder questions like this.

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 23h

That would mean that whoever inherited your estate could donate your organs... is that the case now?

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 23h

I don't think so, but that's how I think it should work. You can also leave instructions for the executor of your estate to carry. So, if you didn't want your organs removed, you could specify that before hand.

64 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 22h

Fuck no.

Compulsory organ harvesting is only an incentive for the harvester to make you unalive.

You’re crushing it with these questions though, @Aardvark.

Please keep em coming.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 21h

I'm still going to take your liver either way. 🤣

37 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Feb

I don't think it should be compulsory. But I wouldn't object if the default was donor, and you had to opt out.

87 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 23h

No but I think more people should be organ donors.

That being said we are probably a decade away from the notion of organ donation being ridiculous. With AI, 3D printing, Bio engineering. It will make more sense to create synthetic organs, designed specifically for a patient rather than rip them out of dead (or in some cases living) people and hope the body is cool about it.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 23h

Hopefully the notion of a lot of our current troubles become ridiculous. We live in wild times

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @poe7645 21h

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @000w2 14h

Nothing should be compulsory when it comes to your own body and mind.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark OP 13h

When your dead you have neither

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @000w2 13h

It's the principle of the thing. If ownership exists over anything, it's your own body.

You should get to decide what happens to it, even though you have no ability to enforce your will into the future.

Vultures stealing your property will always try to justify it in the name of the collective good. i.e. If you can't convince someone to give it to you, just take it.

There's also the question of who would get to take it, and why them specifically and not someone else who might need it?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 13h

You don't own things after you're dead. Nobody can steal from you after you die.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @000w2 10h

If you have a will, the people you transfer ownership to get to decide.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 17h

Great question, to be honest I think this could present a conflict of interest with bad docs to pull the cord. I think it is perfect the way it is.