Legacy Matters

Opting In or Out

In England the plan is to take dead patients' organs without their consent to cover a shortfall in organ donations which leads to more than a 1000 people each year dying before they can receive life-saving transplants. 

Prime Minister Gordon Brown supports a system of 'presumed consent' whereby a dead person's organs are automatically available unless they opted out earlier or family members object.

I predict it won't be long before there is similar pressure here for 'presumed consent.'