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I think it's a good idea and at the very least it will encourage discussion on how to improve the waiting times for transplant patients.
One thing I would suggest is that once someone signed the card and the hospital finds it in their wallet/purse, they should go ahead and harvest the organs once the patient has passed on.
Right now, grieving parents, iffy wives/husbands can refuse to donate the organs of a loved one even though they have signed the card. I have heard of cases where this has happened. What an insult to the deceased! They signed the card, thinking that they were doing the right thing and someone who is related to them stops the doctors from performing the harvest. Or the doctors can't contact someone soon enough to make sure they have the secondary consent and the timeframe passes for harvesting the organs.
At the least, I believe they should make the card a legal document and allow the holder to make the decision. No one should be allowed to circumvent my decision to donate my organs.
This is going to be a hot topic around the water cooler for the next little while...cool.
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