Apparently, if you’re an Englishman, your internal organs are only on loan. PM Gordo Brown wants to ensure that once you kick it your organs are returned to their rightful owner, the State (by state, I mean the National Health System in GB (Great Britain, not Gordon Brown)). Thats right, Brown is backing a law that makes it proper for a state Hospital to assume that you want your organs donated if you show up DOA (or you kick it on their dime) and do not have it explicitly expressed beforehand that you want to hang on to what you believe to be is yours.

This opens up a whole pandora’s box of legality and what is and is not considered personal property. Currently in the States (the United ones of course) you generally have to declare (on your Drivers License or a living will of some sort) that you want to donate your organs. I like the fact that I get to decide what happens to my liver (if I don’t drown it in rum and coke first) when I die and its not automatically handed to the state for the first Tom, Dick or Sue who needs a new liver.

I mean, what’s next? If the Government can declare that your organs belong to the state when you die, whats to keep them from taking other personal property once you pass??

Note: I don’t have a problem with organ donation, I just believe it should be on your own terms…