ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 24 January 2016 05:58:19PM 1 point [-]

I had to give up on trying to find out if a tattoo can count as consent on its own

The core question isn't whether it can legally count as consent but whether the process that a medical team uses when it finds a dead body recognizes the tattoo.

Comment author: Tem42 27 January 2016 11:11:39PM 1 point [-]

I am not a first responder, but if I had a pile of corpses and one of them had an organ donor tattoo, that corpse would definitely be flagged for special attention and quick transport to the morgue. I wouldn't count on it being legal for them to make an extra effort to ID one body before another just based on (suspected) organ donor status, but making it into the refrigerator a bit earlier is a benefit.