By Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University):
Three weeks ago, my dear friend Jackie, a internationally recognized bioethicist in her fifties who lives in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, went to bed with what she thought was a bad case of flu. A few days later she was really ill, and her partner and another dear friend persuaded her to go to an emergency care clinic. After a round of tests, Jackie texted me: “The doctor said, ‘Your liver isn’t very happy.’ I felt like telling him, ‘Meanwhile, my spleen is moderately content but my pancreas would like a 1.3 percent pay raise, so what are you going to do about it?’ Luckily I refrained–they don’t have much of a sense of humor, these consultants.”
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Read the full piece at The Hastings Center’s Bioethics Forum.
As someone who is hepatitis C positive with F3 level hepatic fibrosis I have strong sympathies for Jackie and Hilde, but I object to opt-out organ donation.
It might be very well for secular, tertiary educated people with a medical background but there’s plenty of people in the world who have strong cultural and religious objections to compromising the bodily integrity of a corpse.
Organ donation should be dependent on informed consent, not implied consent in which the donor (and her family) may not be informed at all. That’s especially the case in a society such as ours in which harvested organs have become exploitable and profitable commodities.