Comments on: All your organs are belong to us http://www.jrganymede.com/2010/04/28/all-your-organs-are-belong-to-us/ We endeavor to give satisfaction Mon, 21 May 2012 16:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pecos Bill http://www.jrganymede.com/2010/04/28/all-your-organs-are-belong-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-12621 Pecos Bill Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:06:13 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=2737#comment-12621 You kin pry my organs from my dead body! You kin pry my organs from my dead body!

]]> By: The Only True and Living Nathan http://www.jrganymede.com/2010/04/28/all-your-organs-are-belong-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-12614 The Only True and Living Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:09:56 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=2737#comment-12614 I don't have a problem with an opt-out system per se, but I have trouble imagining any implementation which would a) give all people the reasonable opportunity to opt out, and b) flawlessly know which people have opted out -- because obviously, the point at which a person has become a potential immediate donor is not usually the time at which said person can make his/her wishes known. I don’t have a problem with an opt-out system per se, but I have trouble imagining any implementation which would a) give all people the reasonable opportunity to opt out, and b) flawlessly know which people have opted out — because obviously, the point at which a person has become a potential immediate donor is not usually the time at which said person can make his/her wishes known.

]]> By: Vader http://www.jrganymede.com/2010/04/28/all-your-organs-are-belong-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-12603 Vader Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:50:40 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=2737#comment-12603 How about paying survivors for the organs of their dearly departed? You could put a suicide clause in the law to mitigate any moral hazard. How about paying survivors for the organs of their dearly departed? You could put a suicide clause in the law to mitigate any moral hazard.

]]> By: Zen http://www.jrganymede.com/2010/04/28/all-your-organs-are-belong-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-12582 Zen Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:44:34 +0000 http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=2737#comment-12582 While Americans have a prominent if underused instinctual fear of overreaching government, I don't see this as automatically evil, as long as the opt-out is sufficiently easy. But the organ donor system is seriously broken as it is. Something, preferably good, had ought to be done. While Americans have a prominent if underused instinctual fear of overreaching government, I don’t see this as automatically evil, as long as the opt-out is sufficiently easy.

But the organ donor system is seriously broken as it is. Something, preferably good, had ought to be done.

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