Should the US switch over to an opt-out form of organ donation? Why or why not?

without express permission of the person who inhabits said body, and barring that, their designated agent or next of kin, the body must be left intact and organs may not be removed

If you've been asked, you've given permission. Opting in or out does not change that.

Doing so may violate many possible cultural, religious, or other personal beliefs and wishes that person may hold - and it is not the state's place to decide this for them, when the knowledge is not present.

This honestly doesn't matter one bit to me. We don't live in an 1800s frontier world. This way of thinking will only prevent humanity from progressing. Honestly this makes me hope for the decline of America as the world leader, so that our ridiculous obsession with individualism doesn't take hold into the future.

Ugh. The exact same selfish reasoning is what's preventing solutions to our currently inevitable total destruction of the environment. I predict that if this way of thinking dominates the future, humanity goes extinct within a few millennia.

/rant

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