Do you think the UK should have have an opt out option for organ donation?

Currently the UK runs an opt-in system, where people who want to become organ donors carry donor cards and tell their relatives of their wishes. The opt out system would mean that, when people died, their organs would be automatically considered for transplant unless the person had explicitly expressed otherwise? Is this a fairer system?

Definitely!

not really what about little children who won't neccessarily have had a chance to think about it?

The only thing that I know you can do in this situation is carry around legal documents expressly forbidding the use of your body for any medicinal purposes and to let your legal advisor/family/friends know of your decision.

To be honest I thought that we had an automatic opt-out system and they weren't allowed to touch your body unless they had express consent from someone with power of attourney.

When your dead, that`s it.
I carry a donor card with me everywhere I go. If any part of me can aid the life of another when I`m gone, it`s got to be a good thing :-)

Yes, because it would give other people a chance of life again, and that's just about the best thing you could do for someone.

Definitely NOT

Only if the donation definition became specific.
I say this because we have situations where people donate whole bodies to medical research thinking that they will be used exactly for that - medical research. Thye dont think for a moment that some of the more 'appropriate' bodies are segregated away for other purposes.. such as being a real cadaver in a car crash simulation (dummies can only show so much).
In effect some organ donations are an integral part of big business and orienteered towards a shareholders return.

Yes to donating, but no to a woolly criteria designed to falsely guide subscribers to the scheme.

i dont think we should have organ donation... just let people, who are born defective, by c section, need surgery die...... if we dont do this the human race will stop evolving, and we will become a race which cant give birth naturally, and all have genetic defects...


its time we put a little less value on life.....

Absolutely! I completely agree - it is such a wonder that we can save people with transplants and we desperately need more organs to be available - to do this the opt-out system is definitely best.

If we are going to stick with the current opt-in system the family members should absolutely NOT be able to override it if someone who dies has a donor card. I am registered and my family have been very firmly told that I will come back and haunt their arses off if they dare override my wish to donate my organs should I die.

I think an opt-out system is much better than opt-in. So many more people could live a longer life.

I think it should be opt out.( only for people 18years old or older) I carry a Donor card and I'm on the donor national register.
I also give blood. As when you die you don't need your body any more.

Most definately. Try reading Steven King. " AUTOPSY ROOM FOUR" You are more than likely to agree to answer.
"Yes" we should be allowed to opt out of organ donation. Perhaps a penalty charge for those that do, should be introduced, to stop time wasters/mindchangers.

No i think the system we have now is ok. People know what they are doing when they register....and hopefully they have informed their next of kin of their wishes

Not necessarily fairer, but a help with the organ shortage and I believe we should have it.
Your organs are no use to you after your death so let them help some one else.

No, it should remain the way it is at present.