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The government tried raising awareness for years, it did not work. Other EU countries that have a yes unless donor standard have significant more donors. We nee
by clydethefrog 10y ago
The government tried raising awareness for years, it did not work. Other EU countries that have a yes unless donor standard have significant more donors. We need more donors, the people on the waiting list is too long. It will take a few minutes to opt-out if you feel it's wrong.
That saying, it still need to be passed in the first chamber, which will check if this infringes our law.
- r_smart 10y agoI think my issue is that I don't like seeing the state making more and more decisions for people. Like I said, I am sympathetic to the need though, and am a donor, hence my ambivalence. And from the article, it looks like the yes vote came down to one vote (unless I misread), so it's likely going to be a close one. Also, for the record, I'm in the US, so this is an entirely intellectual exercise for me.
- dudul 10y ago> The government tried raising awareness for years, it did not work. Or it did, but people just decided that they didn't want to be donors.
- Oletros 10y agoBut people wants to have a transplant when they are ill, you can't have them without donation
- dudul 10y agoWell, then people want transplants, but people also don't want to be donors. Maybe that's just how it is. In a way, making it "opt-in" by default is kind of similar to these anti-patterns we see online. Where the "close" button is very tiny in the corner, or the option to hide content is buried under 3 layers of settings. Until we make organ donation mandatory and no longer optional there is only so much we can do. We need to accept to play the game and recognize the right to people to not be organ donors, whatever reasons they may have.