Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cadif.DECnet!garry From: garry@cadif.DECnet ("CADIF::GARRY") Newsgroups: mod.legal Subject: Re: Donative Intent Message-ID: <8610022121.AA04768@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 23:13:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8610022121.AA04768 Posted: Thu Oct 2 23:13:57 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 07:45:42 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "CADIF::GARRY" Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 28 Approved: info-law@brl.arpa In a recent article on info-law, ASPDMM@UOFT01.BITNET (Dave Massey) wrote: Message-ID: <8610020801.ab02421@SEM.BRL.ARPA> > I know this is not the type of topic we usually discuss >on this network, but I had to get this out. I read a case >in Trusts as Estates that dealt with Anatomical Gifts. >After the case the editors pointed out that we would have >far more donated organs if we placed the burden on the >person "not interested in saving life" and not vice versa. >In other words, they proposed, I kid you not, that we >operate on the presumption (rebuttable, I hope) that >EVERYONE wanted to donate unless they took an affirmative >action to indicate to the contrary. They also added that >this is routine in some parts of Europe. The government has already established many many rules as to what may be done, what can't be done, and what must be done with a dead human body. If no one cares enough about a given dead body to say "please do" or "please don't", a default of "may donate" in place of "can't donate" doesn't seem like a big deal. Me, I'm on my second or third donor card. They wear out after a sufficient number of years in my wallet :-). Too bad New York won't print it right onto my driver's license and perpetuate it for me automatically... garry wiegand (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu) ------