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Organ Donation: Opt-In or Opt-Out?

posted by janrinok on Monday September 29 2014, @09:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-put-your-left-leg-in,-your-left-leg-out... dept.

n1 writes:

ScienceDaily reports:

Researchers say there should be an international database containing the very latest information about organ donations and transplants, so policy makers can make informed decisions on whether to adopt an opt-out or opt-in system.

The call comes after a study [in the UK], carried out by The University of Nottingham, the University of Stirling and Northumbria University, showed that overall an opt-out system might provide a greater number of organs for transplant but many factors can influence the success of either system and a repository of accessible information would help individual countries decide which one would be better for them.

The research published in the online academic journal BioMed Central Medicine (BMC Medicine), is the first international comparison that examines both deceased as well as living organ/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems.

[...] Professor Fergusson argues that it is imperative for transplant organizations to routinely collect data on important organ donation indices -- consent type, procurement procedure, number of intensive care beds and trained surgeons -- and make this publicly available to inform future research and policy recommendations.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by geb on Monday September 29 2014, @10:35PM

    by geb (529) on Monday September 29 2014, @10:35PM (#99811)

    Mandatory. No system for opting out.

    If you want to opt-out, you're going to need a dead man switch and an incendiary bomb on your person at all times.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @10:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @10:49PM (#99816)

    So you're okay with some other man getting your penis after you die?

    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 29 2014, @10:58PM

      by Tork (3914) on Monday September 29 2014, @10:58PM (#99818)
      Who would object to that? All I'd ask in exchange is to keep a score of all the new women it met!
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      • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday September 29 2014, @11:01PM

        by Immerman (3985) on Monday September 29 2014, @11:01PM (#99820)

        Sorry, it's going to a gay zoophile.

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 29 2014, @11:22PM

          by Tork (3914) on Monday September 29 2014, @11:22PM (#99831)
          Meow!
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        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:17AM

          by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:17AM (#99846)

          A gay zoophile would bother me less than the average morbidly obese person who's going to get an organ because doctors like paychecks, and waste it.

          You can take my organs, that will mean less smoke when they cremate me. Hastag cheapongasevenwhendead

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:03PM (#99821)

        What if the recipient is a white police officer who had to use deadly force to defend himself from a black thug who had physically attacked him?

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 29 2014, @11:27PM

          by Tork (3914) on Monday September 29 2014, @11:27PM (#99834)
          What organ did this obviously hypothetical officer lose?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @12:19PM (#99961)

    Mandatory. No system for opting out.

    If you want to opt-out, you're going to need a dead man switch and an incendiary bomb on your person at all times.

    Well, I sure wouldn't want to receive your brain.