First off, let me say I am not an organ donor. I’m not opposed to it, don’t believe it’s wrong for anyone who wishes to be one and I’m not even suggesting that I will never be one but I AM opposed to the proposal that the DMV in Delaware is hoping for a Bill to be passed by which on renewal of driving licences each person will automatically be registered as one unless they, themselves, take the necessary steps to have it stricken off their licence. As I heard it on the news this evening, we must notify the clerk that we choose not to be and then sign a form pursuant to our request.
This is not difficult to do, obviously. Nevertheless, how much more government interference are we to endure in our lives? How many more assumptions are going to be mandated on each and every one of our behalfs? I really resent this intrusion into my life and/or disposition of my remains and I honestly don’t believe that any official body…State or Federal or any other…has a right to assume what will be done with my body unless I tell them otherwise. I may not not want to be a donor; I may not have the belief that it is spiritually ‘right. Whatever I believe it is MY choice and my right. Frankly, I don’t see it as being much different from abortion laws. I personally don’t believe in abortion (for me) but I am pro-choice because I don’t see that I…or anyone else…has a right to decide the right or wrongness of it for another.
Supposing someone forgets that, if this Bill is passed, he or she is automatically a donor without ever having the desire to be one. An accident happens, it’s on the driver’s licence. Everyone knows this person’s wishes or beliefs with regards to donorship but, because the DMV “assumed” they had no objection, nothing can be done about it? We have seen, in the last few years, a number of instances when a family wished to pull the plug on a loved one in a coma and a legal wrangle went on for years because it was only word of mouth, nothing written down. Courts, lawyers and family members argue amongst themselves that there is no proof this is what the patient ever really wanted…but if someone neglects to have donorship removed from their licence application, it’s going to accepted by all and sundry that “of course they did intend to be one”? Seems like a one way street to me…and a no win situation. And one does have to wonder just how many little steps away are we, if this passes, from it one day becoming mandatory that we donate our organs whether we wish to or not? I’m sure there are many who…as they have done over the last decade or so…scoff and say “Not that big a deal…”. Yes it is…because one by one by one, a little thing here, a little thing there…personal freedoms, free will, free choice, is being eroded.
We can’t punish and discipline our children as we used to but then get criticized when they end up in trouble, criminal activity and it’s our fault they end up in jail. Our children are banned from school if we refuse to allow vaccinations but if they become ill from said vaccinations or exhibit life-long side-effects from them, no-one accepts responsibility, fiscal or emotional. There’s the abortion issue and many rumblings of overturning Roe v. Wade, with THAT possibility returning women to becoming criminals if they do terminate a pregnancy. We are urged…or is it required…to have our adolescent teenage girls to have an injection for the HPV virus to prevent cervical cancer in later years and we have no idea how or if this vaccination will adversely affect them. We decide to take a trip across country and we must ensure, now, that we have some form of official (read that govt.) identification before even boarding a plane. Not everyone drives and has a licence, been in the military or works for a military contractor/govt. office requiring photo I.D. but such identification must be procured. It doesn’t matter that if we were a threat to this country, our kinfolk or ourselves by means of travel we could be just as big a threat taking a bus, train or a passenger in a motor vehicle.
And we have the nerve to believe we’ve already almost decimated communism?
Not sure of all the facts yet in the UK, but there is talk of everyone being a potential organ donor when they die.
If they disagree with this, then there is a suggestion that “We opt out” and make it known while we are alive.
It is not law as yet, and this does not apply only to drivers either.
I sit on the fence on this one.If I, or a member of my family needed a transplant to keep them alive, I would be wishing for an organ to become available.
On the other hand, if something happened to me, I am not sure what my views on the taking of my organs. Only way I look on it is, what use are they to me when I am gone.
Give life to other people but I do agree with this new system that the world is adopting. Be told what to do and shut up!
I agree with you. If I want to donate my organs that is my choice to make not the governments. What if I chose to donate my body to science for medical study. When you do this you have to have your organs for them to use for study. By the time they are done they are no longer of any use for someone to have. When they are finished with your body you are cremated and the remains are returned to the family for burial or whatever you wish. But that is a choice you make not the government and you must have witnesses when you make that decision. For years I have refused to have it put on my license that I will donate my organs. I do not believe that it should be put on a document that gives me the right to drive. I have my own feelings on what I want and that is not the governments right. If they make it mandatory to have it on there I will do what is required for it not to be there even if I would donate my organs. My family will know if that if I want that. Not to mention there are many people who for health reasons can’t donate blood because it would be unhealthy for someone to receive it, for example someone who has had hepatitis or has it for there is more then one type or someone who takes medication that effects their blood so that it can’t be donated or one of many other illnesses out there. No thank you keep your organs if they put it on everyones license without knowing the health condition of the individual. Our health could change any day from the time they put that on there. I am one who takes medication daily and therefore cannot donate blood. So if I can’t do that what good are my organs?