Organ Donation…
January 19, 2008
Now I’m not a raving Tory or Labour stooge, I like to tread the independent line and I just believe democracy is about asking questions, and this is one that came to me…
I wish that everyone would donate organs when they felt they perhaps didn’t need them, and the government is coming up with practical ideas to make this a reality which all in all is a good thing.
Just a point – This wired, oversentimental creature called the family is going to have veto rights on whether on anything can be harvested.
So surely there isn’t going to be that much of a change. Currently many who wish to donate and are in a state to do so (i.e. dead) can’t because their families feel it would be far better for his/her pancreas to be used in fertilising a small patch of land, than obeying the deceaseds’ wishes.
This I find confusing, the government wishes to bring in this big sweeping and generally uncontroversial reform, but with a caveat to make it a little pointless. Is this going to be a signal of things to come? How will they change anything?
