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I think it's a bit much to voluntarily withhold lifesaving treatment for someone in need because you're angry that your government made a bad policy choice.


I respect your opinion but I don’t want my family to be pressurised with that view at the time of my death.

It’s one thing to ask if they will help someone in need and another to say “we’re doing this are you going to stop us?”

By opting out, when I was previously on the donor list, I can spare them that.

You might say it will be handled more tactfully but there’s historical precedent that it won’t be.

This is an unpopular opinion but I feel compelled to express it; I think this law is wrong.

There should have been more debate and finesse used in the drafting of it.


I don't know why my family should have a say either. I guess it's pressuring them in a way, but dying generally puts pressure on one's family regardless.

Cremated, buried, put out to sea on a flaming raft, whatever. Who cares if the corpse I left behind is short an eyeball, a couple tendons, and a liver?

More importantly, if those body parts can be used to save someone else's life, I don't believe they should even have the right to care. People who are still alive and need an organ to survive are more important than whatever squeamishness and perception of agency my family might have.

The concern that doctors could theoretically let people die more easily to get their organs is another matter entirely, but that's not the topic in this sub-thread.




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