Organ donation law in England has changed

[Premi5]

From Organ Donation NHS website:

Organ donation in England has moved to an 'opt out' system. You may also hear it referred to as 'Max and Keira's Law'.

This means that all adults in England will be considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless they have recorded a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.

Your family will still be approached and your faith, beliefs and culture will continue to be respected.

You still have a choice whether or not you wish to become a donor. Get the facts about organ donation to help you decide. 

 

I am not comfortable with this. Can the Sangat please advise what they would do ? 

I understand the need for body donations for research, e.g. pathology, anatomy. In principle, organ donation seems like a good idea to help improve/save lives but what are your thoughts ?

[ChardikalaUK]

You have to be careful.

Sometimes the doctors will pressure your family into donating your organs/switching your life support machine off even if there is a slight chance that you can recover.

There have been incidents like this and the patient has gone on to make a full or partial recovery.

It would be best to discuss this with your family to instruct them in what should happen if such an incident arose, but you know how melodramatic apne families can get, they would most likely scold you for even mentioning such things.

If there was 100% no chance of recovery or if I was already confirmed dead then I would donate.