Dying Teen Is Being Denied A Heart Transplant Because He’s Had Trouble With The Law

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186. Not mandatory, but it should be opt-out.

If people want to say no because it violates whatever personal values they hold, then let them. But an adult should specifically have to DECLINE to be a donor through a box on their license, a living will, or some other legal mechanism. If you haven't opted out, you should be treated as a donor.

Most people don't like thinking about dying, and there have been plenty of surveys indicating that people don't check the box because they don't want to think about the implications. They don't care one way or the other, they just don't want to think about it. By reversing the paradigm, you can make that same fact work FOR donations. If they don't want to think about it, they're a donor. If they HAVE pondered their mortality and don't want to be a donor for some reason, they can opt-out.