I should want an autopsy, even if there isn't any doubt about my cause of death. They serve a valuable educational role for surgeons and there is, to my understanding, a shortage of opportunities to study.
This may be inconsistent with my preference that any usable organs be donated to those who could benefit from them, and that's more important. But to the extent they can be reconciled, that's what I want.
Oh, yes, absolutely organ donation should always be the first step when it's a viable choice. However, in case of autopsy it isn't; autopsies are calm and measured and neat and tidy and after the body is long-dead, while organ harvesting is a very messy, fast, hasty process that happens as soon as clinical brain death is irreversible but before the organs have had even a few minutes to begin putrefaction.
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I should want an autopsy, even if there isn't any doubt about my cause of death. They serve a valuable educational role for surgeons and there is, to my understanding, a shortage of opportunities to study.
This may be inconsistent with my preference that any usable organs be donated to those who could benefit from them, and that's more important. But to the extent they can be reconciled, that's what I want.
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