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The stomach is an organ inside the abdomen, and the abdomen is a region of the body.

It looks like the appendix is more-or-less a trouble-free organ in comparison.

Second, requiring an invasive medical procedure on a live subject is hugely different to cadaver organ donation.

I figure I'm much more likely to die waiting for an organ than to be off'd for mine even well into the gray zone of organ harvesting.

There are a lot of thorny ethical questions surrounding organ donation, death, and drawing hard lines where things are squishy.

This means that, in the very common case of circulatory failure, if you wait for a patient to die, there will be no organ transplants available from that person.

What happens when organ donation is seen as a moral imperative and only a few percent of people choose not to participate?

The real stink is about the problems of organ donation from somebody who is dying (contrary to intuition, you cannot get an organ from a dead person, even if they've only been dead 15 minutes.

Your assertion is sorta like saying that the human body is like an organ because it is basically the heart, brain, and eyes.

As others have commented here, this is also exactly why I am not an organ doner.

And this is why I'm not an organ donor, because I knew it would eventually be pushed to this and beyond.

Also, in this case it was not the government but another organ of the state, unless you refer with ´government´ to any organization of public law.

As a prospective organ donor, I am comfortable with "dead enough" organ harvest for myself as long as my living will and my family's wishes (subordinate to the living will) were respected.

I'm all for organ donation, medical euthanasia, and other issues that are related to this but I feel a little uncomfortable about being considered "Dead enough".

I expressed similar concerns of yours to her, "organ donor might mean that the doctors don't try and save me as hard because hey, good organs!" and she was emphatic that the doctors wouldn't do this.

I think a sane default is to require opt-out for organ donation after brain death (what Europe does now, I believe) with an opt-in "sliding-scale" for the rest of the possibilities.

I think quite famous people have this behavior like Einstein/Violin, Knuth/Organ and even Sherlock Holmes had one which Doyle mentioned helped him get his mind off the case and come back invigorated.