X-Message-Number: 16309
From: "BlackShark" <>
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #16304 - #16305
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:47:41 -0600

> PRESUMING DEATH
>
> State Senate Bill 907, "Organ Donations Presumed," would allow doctors to
> remove a person's organs for transplantation four hours after he or she is
> pronounced dead, if there were no known wishes to the contrary and if a
> family member or guardian did not arrive, even if that person had not
> previously signed an organ donor card.
>

I welcome this law and would like to see it enacted in every state and
country. People are on waiting lists for years sometimes for organ
transplants while perfectly good organs are being buried with their dead
containers.  I would encourage a law that would make a body property of the
state upon death to be used in the most beneficial way to help the living.
With the exception, of course, of a body that has arranged to be cryonically
suspended upon death.

David King
Edmonton, AB. Canada

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