If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
Since you mentioned it - organ donation should be opt out, not opt in. It wouldn’t even be controversial, everybody still has freedom of choice.
Edit: I’m really curious what those downvoting me are objecting to. At least leave a comment or something!
We have it half way in between in NL: If you don’t opt out of organ donation, they will register: “Did not object to donation”. Without a definite yes, close family could still opt you out (after you lose the ability to share your thoughts) if they feel strongly against donating. With a definite yes, that option is also no longer available.
I think the full “opt-out” way should be fine too, if you really feel strongly against sharing working organs, you have the option to not do it, so no one is forced to do anything, and with opt-out the amount of organs available will be much larger, saving lives.
No. Volunteer euthanasia potentially benefits the individual
- if it benefits society, that’s a huge conflict of interest that can easily turn a service for the most desperate into a tool for oppression
- organ donation may not be beneficial if a large proportion of these desperate had formerly escaped through drugs or are enduring chronic medical issues
- should not be common enough to create a noticeable population change. There is no “spot freed up”. In the more likely scenario of population peaking in the next couple decades, then dropping rapidly, it could only exacerbate the problem
I would say that people being able to have access to gentle, quiet means of exercising their right to death is a positive, period.
But you start making organ donation mandatory, you run into some heavy issues.
depends on the reason for it.
Generally, I’m of the “its your life, do what you want,” camp. There’s some valid reasons for voluntary euthanasia- like terminal diseases that are painful. We do it for pets that we love, we say ‘we don’t want to prolong the suffering’…
why is it wrong to let humans make that decision for themselves?
No. The horrible people would never choose it. They’d revel in making the good people so miserable they’d kill themselves. Society would crumble because only the selfish assholes would be left.
I mean…how is that different than what we have today?
“Ugh, too much trouble to kill myself, if I have to live in this fucking world I might as well try to make it a little better.” That’s my thought for today.
First and foremost, euthanasia does not benefit these people who get killed.
