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But why should you need a sticker to opt out? What about those people who disagree but not strongly enough to go get a sticker? What if they "lose" your sticker?
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People will go out of their way to benifit themselves, but getting someone to make even the smallest effort to help someone else damn near impossible. Those that agree but not strongly enough to go out of their way to get a sticker are preventing up to 8 people from receiving organs. Because they were lazy they killed 8 people, If this law were to pass, a person would save up to 8 lives by not giving a shit.
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True. But if there's family, they don't confiscate your property either. And they do make efforts to find relatives. Why should I have to go out of my way to not have my body desecrated? If you want to donate, they ask when you get a licence, and upon renewal. You get the sticker.
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If there's no documentation about your wishes, your family is the one that is going to decide whether of not to donate your organs. You can explain your wishes to them and hope they remember if the time comes, and hope they obey your wishes, or you can answer a simple yes or no question when you get your license.
Basically all that NOT signing the back of your license does is puts the burden of making the choice on your family. It groups you with all the people that don't give a shit so the hospital is going to assume you're lazy and ask your family. Unless you've gone out of your way to make your wishes clear to your family, it's very possible they will make a choice you do not agree with. It gives the people that do not want to donate a very clear posistion while catering to 'those that agree but strongly enough.'
And, I have a 'sticker.' or the equivalent of one anyways.
I would have to read the whole bill before I could truely agree or disagree with it though.