State Makes All Adults in England Organ Donors Unless They Object

[Thunder Good-Oil]

there's also a company that will press your remains into vinyl so your friends can listen to your favorite record with you in it.

AndVinyly

I want to become charcoal briquettes that my loved ones can toss into the green egg at their cookouts.

 

[GoBigOrangeUT]

there's also a company that will press your remains into vinyl so your friends can listen to your favorite record with you in it.

AndVinyly

Brings to meaning to this:

 

[Purple Tiger]

And I am so glad the government, which now has financial incentive to see me dead, makes that decision.

Like Bham I am a donor, and I dont give one crap what happens to my body once I am gone. But there is no way in hell it's ok to make that decision for someone else.

Your elected state legislators made that decision. Remember Karen Ann Quinlan?

If someone hasn't made plans for their corpse, then families decide what to do. Same if you made plans.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I'm more concerned about the government having an incentive to expedite certain individual's deaths if they get to pick through the remains of some of them.

My concern also. And you know those decisions will be made. There will be a financial incentive to look at a person and say is it worth saving and treating this guy or is he worth more dead than alive...

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

I want to become charcoal briquettes that my loved ones can toss into the green egg at their cookouts.

Grind your cremains to powder and have your friends snort you

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

I suppose you could get credit for organs...owe $10K in back property taxes? That'll be your heart, one kidney and your cornea.

Who is setting the market prices on these organs?

 

[LouderVol]

Do you really believe that people die before their time to get their organs? What makes you think that?

The NHS.

They can already deam you too far gone and deny care. Now they have another reason to let you go.

 

[LouderVol]

Your elected state legislators made that decision. Remember Karen Ann Quinlan?

If someone hasn't made plans for their corpse, then families decide what to do. Same if you made plans.

Sure didnt. Looked her up and there is good reason I dont remember her. She died 4 years before I was born.

And not sure how our government profits like the all knowing all beneficial universal health care of Ye Olde Britain does.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

It's bizarre that the parents tried to pull the plug on KAQ and she managed to outlive Jimmy Hoffa by several years. He disappeared three months after she went comatose and he wasn't legally declared dead for another 7 years. KAQ: "Hold my feeding tube and watch this". She was one of the most famous people in the country in 1975 while in a vegetative state. So was Hoffa but they never figured out which "state" he was in.

Wild times in the US news in 1975. Patty Hearst was a fugitive, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, and Karen Ann refused to pass away while her parents battled to unplug her. All at the same time. And Saigon was falling to the VC that spring. Now it's news whether or not Trump wears a Rona mask.

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Offer FMV to the decedent's family for organs and you'll get a better participation rate. The hospital has no qualms cutting out your organs for free and then turning around and charging $500k to sew them into someone else. My FIL was at the blood bank and he suggested that if they wanted better participation they could send you the test results from the screenings they do on the donations. People and companies are very interested in data quantification and health metrics so it seems pretty logical. The person he talked to said there would be privacy issues. Giving you the results to your own blood screen.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Offer FMV to the decedent's family for organs and you'll get a better participation rate. The hospital has no qualms cutting out your organs for free and then turning around and charging $500k to sew them into someone else.

That would add a whole new level to a Karen Ann Quinlan type of situation. But if all of the legalities of permission were worked out on the front end, it's ridiculous that there is that much money being spread around and nothing goes to the most important, selfless party involved in the process. Total costs would go up so the insurance lobby is going to veto that possibility.

 

[DancingOutlaw]

That would add a whole new level to a Karen Ann Quinlan type of situation. But if all of the legalities of permission were worked out on the front end, it's ridiculous that there is that much money being spread around and nothing goes to the most important, selfless party involved in the process. Total costs would go up so the insurance lobby is going to veto that possibility.

I'm not saying your family decides, but if you yourself are offered $10k for your kidney and you accept upon your death then you'd see a lot more people do it. At the very least you could help offset funeral costs or pay to settle your affairs.

 

[KB5252]

I’d love to meet the person who has no next of kin, no technology and no money to write a will. There must be millions of them!

So if the number is less than .5 million who cares? That makes total sense.