Why isn't mandatory organ donation required?

Why isn't mandatory organ donation required? How can our society let children die when the technology is available to save them? Personal choice? Give me a break! They are rotting in the ground, use them.

Where would you go for the 'parts' thus salvaged? Ghouls R Us?

Who would run the organization Igor or Dr. Frankenstein?

I do want to donate my organs but... some people, and their relatives, think that cutting up the body causes harm in the afterlife... I would think letting a child die because I was <stingy> can do me more harm; but it's not that which prompts me... I just think that it's best that my body is used after I am gone.

Required... that would probably not get through legislative bodies, unfortunately.

Some people have that spiritual mentality of keeping their body for the after-life.

Lets see, what would be next? Mandatory death after say 65 cause you are useless and can't work anymore. This is a free country, we do have a free choice.

It you can't be cut on without your permission when you're alive, why does someone else get to decide about your body when your dead???

government should not have the power to force people to do anything, even after they are dead. sorry.

i am sure most people may disagree with me.

I agree with you that donating organs is something everybody should do, but ultimately it's ervery person's choice, even if you don't like that. Their bodies, their choice.

Mandatory this and that is a slippery slope that can be abused.

I don't believe it should be mandatory, but I would support 'opt out' rather then 'opt in' donation.

Right now, you have to sign documents saying you want to be an organ donor, and your family probably has to back that decision. It should be reversed. You should automatically be an organ donor unless you alert the government that you do NOT wish to be one. People should have the right to not donate, but for the vast pool of people who don't care, or can't be bothered to register one way or the other, the default should be that you are a donor.

You are talking about giving the state ownership over each and every human being. By making such a thing as organ donation mandatory - you take away "choice", you take away various religious beliefs, you take away some secular rights to opinion and philosophy

MOST IMPORTANT...,
Organ donation made mandatory opens up a level of black market that has criminals killing people in organ harvesting for mega $$$.
Thus your plan results in the murder of innocents. Would you want that? Murder to save lives? Its not only redundant and insane, its cruel.

Though I agree with you, I don't think that will ever fly in America.

Because we still have freedom of choice in the United States. We were not meant to live forever, even tho, especially in the US, we view death as unnatural. How much DO YOU KNOW about organ donation? From the families perspective and from the professional viewpoint. Do some more research.