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To: per loin
Sorry, I don't see it as a grabby attitude. Remember, under that system, you'd have full rights to decline, or to have your family decline, organ donation. There are parallel situations. Suppose you were killed in an industrial accident or a crime? You would be autopsied -- no choice in the matter at all, because society presumes the right to information in matters of justice. It's not exactly the same, I admit. But there is a terrible societal cost to letting 80,000 people a year die for lack of kidneys.
38 posted on 02/03/2003 5:15:23 PM PST by MoralSense
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To: MoralSense
. But there is a terrible societal cost to letting 80,000 people a year die for lack of kidneys.

I sympathize with those on waiting lists but think we should err on the side of the victim's family. People are not property of the State.

Why not put up posters of people saved by organ donors at the DMV and see if you can get the donation rate to increase?

44 posted on 02/03/2003 5:36:41 PM PST by AdamSelene235
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To: MoralSense
"But there is a terrible societal cost to letting 80,000 people a year die for lack of kidneys."

What cost? Seems both a savings and the will of G_d to me. Or is life extention yet more of the realm of the wealthy.

45 posted on 02/03/2003 5:56:54 PM PST by S.O.S121.500
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