Thanks Tracy and Len for the replies. I wanted to see what replies I got
before giving my thoughts on the issue. I fear that Tracy put the state of
affairs mildly. I reckon that the opinion poles are just plain wrong, I
reckon that people only really give an honest answer to whether they would
want their organs to be used by actually getting an organ donor card, and
that when asked in opinion poles alot of people just say yes (rather than no
or not sure) so as not to look selfish (or whatever) or admitt it to
themselves.

Len wrote
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It doesn't matter If everyone carried a card, while the law allows their
next of kin to revoke it, plenty of organs will be lost.

We should be fighting for the Opt-out clause and get rid of the opt-in
clause.
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Well we could go further than that.

Considering life saving transplants only, not allowing usable organs to be
transplanted means leaving those who would have otherwise received those
organs at risk of dieing from their conditions, in fact given the shortage
of organs some of those people will die. Therefore not allowing
transplantation is in effect killing people yet this is considered lawfull.
Discuss ......

Fred

P.S. Legal question: If someone carries a donor card, unfortunatly dies but
the relatives object to transplantation, is there a legal obligation for
their wishes to be followed? Rather than just that the hospital has the
discretion to follow the relatives wishes rather than the wishes of the
deceased.