Opt-in or opt-out, there are far, far too few people that die under the "right" circumstances for this to have any effect at all on, say, kidney donations. It's not even a drop in the bucket.
Live donations are the only answer, in the short run. Making it legal to compensate live donors for their organs is the only practical solution that could help people right away. As it is, everyone - doctors, nurses, hospitals - gets paid *except* the donor because people think there has to be some kind of noble sacrifice involved for donation to be moral.
Live donations are the only answer, in the short run. Making it legal to compensate live donors for their organs is the only practical solution that could help people right away. As it is, everyone - doctors, nurses, hospitals - gets paid *except* the donor because people think there has to be some kind of noble sacrifice involved for donation to be moral.
In the long run, vat-grown organs.