> it won't use your body's organs to save other human beings, without your express consent
No longer true here in NL:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/14/health/new-dutch-law-orga...
No longer true here in NL:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/14/health/new-dutch-law-orga...
I personally find it abhorrent. I used to be an organ donor before they made it opt-out in argentina: after that in protest I took myself out.
Even following the anti authoritarian reasoning, which I'm kind of fond, I find it silly to worry about this, with all the stuff the state decides over your life.
> I find that doctors still "request" the permissions to the family because no one wants to deal with unnecessary legal trouble.
Until they don't need to. In argentina for example, the legal requirement of getting consent from family members was lifted with the introduction of the opt-out. Funny thing about the opt-out, its an online registration!
I've seen opt-out described as a "libertarian paternalism" proposal to say that you have the liberty to choose anything but that there is an opinionated default. I find such reasoning to always lead to a death by a thousand cuts: if every single policy was implemented opt-out, you would definitely be able to manipulate the population into something.
> with all the stuff the state decides over your life.
I worry about any of them. And I don't find it comforting at all to argue that because individual liberties are breached many times, whats does one more stripe do to the tiger.
You can't go to a cemetery and dig up corpses because "they didn't opt-out of grave-robbery". I would say that the body naturally falls under the concept of private property, which is why it is heinous to desecrate bodies and their belongings when people die.
What's crazy to me is that this problem looks so easy to resolve: if you want organ donors, pay for them. A form of reverse insurance: that will get you people in.
Paying for organ donors comes with a host of problems. It’s far from easy.
> Paying for organ donors comes with a host of problems. It’s far from easy.
Nobel prizes have been awarded on one solution to this problem alone!