Organ donors needed - planning to help others upon your death

This discussion area is usually for life insurance and people planning for their death. I saw this and thought that it is another way that a person can help out others upon their death. Organ Donation. It's interesting in this article that "most people mentioned that they wouldn't mind being an organ donor after they pass away". However, most people don't designate themselves as an organ donor. I'll admit, it's not something I think about every day. The whole purpose of life insurance is to think about your loved ones after you die. Being an organ donor is another way to give value to those around you.

Finally, an approach to organ donation better than complete apathy The state of organ donation is simply devastating in the United States. The present system, in which individuals are assumed not to be organ donors unless they denote otherwise, ends in the needless death of thousands simply because many are too lazy to go through the miniscule effort of becoming an organ donor (it is as simple as signing the back of one�s driver�s license). There are numerous effective mechanisms that would drastically decrease this shortage, the most prominent being an opt-out system where individuals would be assumed to be donors unless they denoted otherwise. Studies have shown that this would allow the small percentage of those who are truly opposed to their organs being donated to avoid that, and the vast percentage who are just too lazy to change their donor status would end up donating (in first-world countries that opt out instead of opt in, the percentage of donors is drastically higher).

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