{"id":8828,"date":"2023-03-24T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2023-03-24T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T21:01:20","slug":"from-stealing-organs-to-growing-organs-from-pigs-the-lengths-humans-will-go-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/2023\/03\/24\/from-stealing-organs-to-growing-organs-from-pigs-the-lengths-humans-will-go-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"From stealing organs to growing organs from pigs: the lengths humans will go to survive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a registered organ donor<\/a> before the opt-out system<\/strong>, I could not fathom why people would not want to donate their organs. It baffled me, and yet in 2019, I was in a debating competition where I had to oppose the idea of organ donation as an opt-out system – my point was simple. Surely the argument that this is a violation of a donor’s autonomy and implies given consent, would always triumph over the utilitarian view, that it should be the greatest good for the greatest number, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original donor card required for the opt-in system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In 2020, the UK introduced a new law, the \u2018opt-out\u2019 system<\/a>. Many believed this diminished a donor’s autonomy, yet, by definition, there is still a choice in opting out. The new law made sense to me, when around 6,945 people<\/a><\/strong> are currently awaiting a transplant in England, I found it hard to understand the counter-argument.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jon Dawson covered the ideas of organ donation and autonomy throughout his lectures. I saw a wide range of views in one group of students of a similar age and with the same privilege of higher education. Dr. Dawson put forward the Alder Hey case<\/strong>, where about 850 organs<\/strong> were being harvested after death without any form of consent from either the patients or guardians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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