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I agree with you 200%. I think a couple of countries in Europe might have that. I heard Brazil used to have it, but had to change it when stupid people got angry.
Organ donation is a tricky thing, and people don't think rationally when confronted with the death of a loved one.
I'm from Singapore, where we're automatically registered as organ donors and the majority of us are cremated after death, so organ donation shouldn't really be that much of an issue.
Sadly(?), medical science has advanced to the point where we can be kept "alive" despite being brain dead, and it is from these corpses that the organs with the best chance of a successful transplant can be obtained. It's hard to expect a family to accept organ donation when they can see that the loved one still has a heartbeat, even if the heartbeat is produced with the aid of life-support machines.
If the hospital takes a "screw you, you're stupid and we're taking your organs" attitude, the inevitable backlash has no winners and the law will end up changed. It took a lot of cajoling from our governmental mouthpieces to soothe public sentiment when that happened.
There are two of you?
-- New York Times, The New, Soft Paternalism
Perhaps he feels twice as strongly (by some measure) about the issue than he estimates I do?
Huh. That actually makes sense. I withdraw my objection.
(Eric S. Raymond called me a "hyperintelligent pedantic bastard" at Penguicon 2009. I was flattered.)