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Organ donor should be opt out, not opt in.

IIRC I heard they were doing this in the UK, at least I heard something about it on the radio.

I think it's the right default, most people won't mind donating and those who do are generally more motivated to fill out the opt out docs.

I disagree. Instead it should be mandatory to choose. Make it a condition for getting a driver's license or even your ID.

> mandatory to choose

That's a contradiction. If it's mandatory, it's not a choice.

What makes you feel you have the right to tell others they should be forced to donate their organs?

Not mandatory to donate. Mandatory to make an explicit choice of whether to donate or not (neither opt-out nor opt-in).

I believe GP was suggesting that making a decision should be mandatory at some point. While I personally prefer the default here be to opt in as a donor, GP suggested merely that a decision as to yes or no should be required.

Where I live, one must state organ donor preference when obtaining a driver's license. I believe the default answer is no if you choose not to choose.

People who are not organ donors should receive organs with lower priority than those who are. That would only be fair - and it would get people to sign up.

Absolutely agreed! Make it whenever people get their driver's license, they must make an opt out form.

Nope, that would be a disaster. While the intent here is good it will lead to the very unfortunate side effects like incentivizing organ trade where a person would be killed under some pretext ( or even without a pretext) just to harvest his organs. I believe this already happens in some parts of the world.

Yeah you dont know how the organ donor system works.

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