Organ Donation: Or IB fails to understand other people again

[innerbrat]

Another one of those subjects about which I am simply astonished there's any debate at all, is organ donation.

According to the BBC, Gordon Brown has spoken out recently that Britain should adopt an opt-out organ donation policy, instead of the current opt-in. Under the current system, donating your organs after death is an active decision - you

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[ginasketch]

Another useless policy.

[innerbrat]

I'm sorry, what is? Why?

[ginasketch]

I meant the opt out thing, sorry. It changes nothing. No one is forced to donate their organs.

[innerbrat]

Actually it means that John Smiths, people who don't bother to register one way or another, and people whose wishes can't be determined, are harvested for organs. It increasing the available organs for donation quite considerably.

[ginasketch]

Ah I see.

Personally, this still does not faze me. I do have an organ donor card.

[innerbrat]

I am on the register, but I keep losing my card. >_> I hope that's enough.