29May/19

Opt-out organ donation: presume kindness, not consent, to save more lives – The Conversation – UK

Opt-out organ donation: presume kindness, not consent, to save more lives  The Conversation – UK

A gift worth giving. NosorogUA/Shutterstock Around one in six people awaiting an organ transplant in the UK will die or become ineligible due to deteriorating health before an organ is available. Many blame this situation on England’s current “opt-in” donor scheme – if you want to donate your organs after you die, you have to give express permission. But that is about to change. From April 2020, everyone resident in England over the age of 18 will be deemed, in law, to have consented to the donation of their organs after death. If they don’t want to be a donor, people will have to “opt-out”…