I have written about organ donation before. As it presently stands, when you renew your Colorado Drivers License, you can “opt in” and become an organ donor. Our mommies beloved leaders The idiots in charge want to change that (New York style) and MAKE you a donor unless you opt out.
Now, as I stated before, I have nothing against being an organ donor. After all, if I am dead, I certainly don’t have any use for my spare parts. However, I resent a bunch of govt. busybodies telling me that I WILL be an organ donor, unless I fill out the proper forms to get out from under their thumb. This is not the function of govt.
Who gets my parts and pieces after I croak, is none of their goddamn business. If I chose to incinerate my parts warehouse , that’s my choice and I don’t want to have to fill out their paperwork so I can “have it my way”.
Oh, but, IT’S A GOOD THING, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER. It’s just a little bit more govt, just a little bit more control, and down the slippery slope we go….
If organ donation is a GOOD THING, then go ahead – do it. It’s your choice – your conscious choice to do a good deed for someone you will never meet. It is an honorable thing, and one of the highest forms of charity, that of giving when neither party knows the others identity.
It would certainly raise the level of organ donation, because I am certain, a lot of people would find it to much bother to opt out, regardless of how they felt about it. If the level of donation is to low, then I suggest that we think of different ways to achieve the goal of higher donations. As it stands, the organ donors themselves get nothing (of course, as they are usually dead, this isn’t a big deal), the recipient get a new part (which may or may not work out, no returns, mileage may vary) and the medical people make out like bandits.
So what’s wrong with this picture? I can see a large flaw in that, in a money driven society, there just isn’t an incentive to donate. Selling of organs is generally frowned upon, so that is out. But, I don’t think having Big Brother step in and decide for us as being a solution. 
I don’t see the govt doing much of anything really well and I’d just as soon keep them out of my life (and death) as much as possible.
