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We'll do an autopsy on a dead body without its consent. Why not an organ donation?

> And, if the ends do justify the means, what about requiring people to be organ donors except for the same exclusions allowed with vaccines?

I'm fine with this.



> We'll do an autopsy on a dead body without its consent. Why not an organ donation?

Assuming you are a proponent of opt-out organ donation: Should then bodies be taken as needed for scientific research?


That would depend significantly on whether there's a demonstrable shortage of bodies for scientific research of the life-saving kind.




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