
11-04-2005, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Australia
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I have a train of logic which has upset a few people in the past (shock horror).
It is a legal offence in Oz to with-hold or refuse aid which would have saved someone injury or death.
If by not allowing perfectly usable organs to be taken for transplant, you are contributing to the death of others, you are in breach of that law.
Should you have some deep religious or philosophical reason to be excluded from a universal transplant donor scheme, it could be assessed by a legal review panel and (mostly) accepted.
Excludists should be tattooed with an ultraviolet number so that mistakes are not made with "John Doe"s.
Most people are not registered organ donors because it's just too much trouble or they have not yet come to terms with their own mortality.
When the rights of the dead outweigh the rights of the living to keep living, something is very wrong with society.
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