If you’re in the US, register here: https://registerme.org/

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Throwing this post out there for a bit of visibility and discussion.

For me, I just registered 5 minutes ago. Idgaf what they use my body for, as long as someone learns something it’s a net positive at no expense to me.

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So if a necrophiliac uses your dead body to “learn better techniques” you’re cool with it?

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Shame I won’t be around to share in the experience

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As the great Frank Reynolds once said “Fill me up with cream, turn me into a cannoli, make a stew out of my ass. What’s the big deal? Bang me, eat me, grind me up into little pieces, throw me in the river. Who gives a shit? Ya dead, ya dead.”

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Frank is truly a poet.

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Techniques to be a better lover? 🤔 For who?

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Yeah, but they aren’t going to like my liver.

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Actually, you can donate up to 2/3 of your liver while alive and it’ll regenerate.

Can I have enough to cover a cracker

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Go and look now, it doesn’t take long 👍

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Not american, so that link doesn’t apply to me. Here everyone is a potential donor, and the family decides. My immediate family knows full well that my organs are FFA when I don’t need them anymore.

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In the US, it’s actually up to the next of kin, too. When you die, they technically own your corpse. Registering basically just makes a record of your opinion. Even if you aren’t registered, I think your family can decide to donate the spare parts

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I am - in the UK - and I think that it should be opt out rather than opt in.

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It is, they changed it a while back.

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I’d go so far as to say there should be no choice available to opt out

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Wtf? The state doesn’t own our bodies.

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Neither do you, once you’re dead.

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How does it matter though once we’re dead? It’s only gonna help others in need

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I think the vast majority of people who, even if they have some discomfort around the idea, would not care enough to opt out. The only effect of not allowing opt out, I think, would be to cause considerable distress to those who do care a lot about not donating. I don’t agree with their stance but I don’t think they should be forced to donate, especially if we can get enough organs just from making it opt out instead of opt in

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