We are not property of the State therefore, society has no claim on it.
If we are property of the State then all we're disagreeing on is the moment where their claims supersede our own.
The moment of death is a convenient but negotiable/re-definable point: "Well, they're brain dead already.." or "Well, their quality of life.." or "Their chance of survival.."
Or to put it another way: Do you want want [your least favorite politician] writing this policy?
> We are not property of the State therefore, society has no claim on it. If we are property of the State then...
You're trying to force this into a "We {are|aren't} property of the state". Both sound completely wrong to me, on multiple levels. It's a TypeError. You're applying words in ways that don't match.
(You might as well try to convince me that "Beethoven's 5th is either color, or black-and-white". No, those are both wrong. I'm not going to agree with any conclusions you reach starting from either condition.)
Humans aren't "property" (of themselves, or anything else). And the state doesn't own something today just because it may own it after your death (e.g., when a person without a will dies, their house may go to the state, but that in no way means their house was "property of the state" while they were alive, and definitely not that all houses are property of the state).
> Do you want want [your least favorite politician] writing this policy?
Again, that sounds like a fallacy that's trying to goad people into a false choice. I don't want my least favorite politician writing any government policy. There is no framework yet conceived under which a malicious administrator would not be able to cause great harm by instituting a policy of their own design. That doesn't mean all such policies are inherently ill-conceived.
I saw your other comment and was surprised to find the same. I had no clue it was like this. The laws are either vague or explicitly prohibit doing much of anything to a corpse outside the normal burial and cremation.
We are not property of the State therefore, society has no claim on it.
If we are property of the State then all we're disagreeing on is the moment where their claims supersede our own.
The moment of death is a convenient but negotiable/re-definable point: "Well, they're brain dead already.." or "Well, their quality of life.." or "Their chance of survival.."
Or to put it another way: Do you want want [your least favorite politician] writing this policy?