Organ Donation: What Are Deemed Consent, Deemed Authorisation And Presumed Consent? – UKC ( Vital Info Esp UK Residents)
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– The Independent (2004): Forgotten for 25 years: now the 1,000 infant bodies found after Alder Hey can be laid to rest
– GOV.UK (2001): The Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry Report
– Human Tissue Authority: A guide for the public to the Human Tissue Act 2004 (PDF)
– NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): The best thing you’ll do today: Confirm your decision to be an organ donor
– UK Column article (2018): No TIME to Die by Dr Mike Williams
– UK Column article (2010): Without Consent by Martin Edwards
– UK Column content: Debi Evans Blog: 8 August 2023
– NHS Blood and Transplant: Parents of 11-week-old baby who needs urgent heart transplant urge families to think about organ donation- NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): Waiting To Live: Campaign shines a light on children waiting for a transplant
– The Behavioural Insights Team: Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation
– GOV.UK: Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation—Preliminary results from a randomised controlled trial (PDF)
– The Decision Lab: Sludge
“Sludge is essentially the opposite of a nudge. While nudges try to push people to make better decisions by making certain choices easier than others, sludges make a process more difficult with the goal of creating friction, which makes the consumer less likely to continue the process.”
– GOV.UK (2019): Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira’s Bill passed into law
– NHS Organ Donation: Register your decision
– ODT Clinical: Transplant units in the UK: Download a report of the number of transplants performed by each transplant unit (PDF)
– ODT Clinical: Organ Donation and Transplantation 2030: Meeting the Need
– NHS Organ Donation: UK laws
– NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): Organ donation law in England has changed
– BBC: Organ harvesting: Trafficked for his kidney and now forced into hiding
– Yahoo News: ‘Miracle boy’ Trenton McKinley, 13, wakes up after being declared brain dead and parents agreed to donate organs
– AOMRC: A code of practice for the diagnosis and confirmation of death (PDF)
– NHS Blood and Transplant: UK launches world’s largest ever randomised controlled trial in organ donation
– UHN Toronto (YouTube): What happens with organ donation after death
– The World Economic Forum (2022): Gene-edited pig heart transplanted into a human patient
– The World Economic Forum (2015): How 3D-printing could transform heart surgery
When a friend’s mother understood that you couldn’t be dead before they started whipping organs from your body (dead organs are no use), she quickly withdrew her consent to donate her eyes.
People have also been known to wake up while being carved into without anaesthetic. Not for me, thank you.