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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e35dabb$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Organ Donors Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:44:11 +0100 References: <008ed5a6-3049-4f6e-8ec3-49d31d103a34@n35g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> <99krflFreU1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99krflFreU1@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: fa0d637d.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=?T_3G^W]`R9YlN:0T[`b8 Simon Mason wrote: > >> The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency already asks if applicants >> want to be donors - but from Monday an online form will require that >> the answer is stated. Ministers hope it will help improve organ >> donation rates. >> >> When a similar scheme was introduced in the US state of Illinois, >> donor registration jumped from 38% to 60%." >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14341553 > > It's a good idea. We should work on opt-out, really.

I agree. I saw a scene on "The Simpsons" once where Moe was trying to commit suicide by getting himself run over. He wore a big notice saying "No-one gets my organs if I die". I thought "What a git! What does he care what happens to him when he dies?" Then I thought "But hang on, I've not opted to be a donor, so surely I (and others like me) are being just like Moe?" I guess that was the point the writers were trying to make....

I've since opted in. But as you say, it should be opt-out. I can't see many people taking the trouble to do that. (And it would also mean that cyclists, who lest we forget are more vulnerable road users than motorists, would donate more....)