• Kairos
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    43 days ago

    Hey FYI in the US it has to be this way. In certain states they have an opt-out on drivers license forms, but that’s still technically an opt-in. Being a body-donor can’t benifit you, so thus your direct consent is needed for it.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal
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      13 days ago

      I feel like this is more an issue of poor healthcare than personal choice. It seems like rather than the U.S. chosing to be opt-in, they are physically unable to give everyone the choice to opt-out.

      • Kairos
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        12 days ago

        No. It’s a thing due to its liberal legal system.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)OP
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      -73 days ago

      Being a body-donor can’t benifit you

      This assumes that “you” are a pattern of neural impulses (or a soul) rather than a body. If you’re a body, then you getting to beat your heart in someone else’s chest is surely a benefit.

      Drag agrees that people are minds, not bodies. But it’s interesting to hear this logic from a country where so many people argue that a woman is a uterus, not an identity.