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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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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 24 Feb

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 24 Feb

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

149 sats \ 0 replies \ @rblb 24 Feb

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

193 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Feb

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 24 Feb

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

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 24 Feb

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.

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.

64 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 24 Feb

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 24 Feb

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

87 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 24 Feb

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 24 Feb

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

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 25 Feb

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.

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @poe7645 24 Feb

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @000w2 25 Feb

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

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark OP 25 Feb

When your dead you have neither

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @000w2 25 Feb

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 25 Feb

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

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @000w2 25 Feb

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

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 25 Feb

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.