This, to me, is good news.
Not that I expect there to be any battle over my organs when I'm gone. I anticipate that they will be much used and abused, and if somebody tries to get more out of them than I have, he'll get about as much as the average retread tire on an eighteen-wheeler, with comparable end results.
Nevertheless, should somebody need some of my parts, my family knows that I wouldn't mind giving up what I'm not using. As long as I'm alive, I'll take issue with anybody cutting short my stay in any way (I will fight to the last ounce of my energies to stay alive, now that I know life isn't as sucky as I thought when I was 16), but once I'm gone from this shell, whatever there is left behind should be used for maximum benefit to human beings.
And, it's nice to see that the law will now back up others who feel the same way. As long as they don't mandate it for everybody. This is a personal choice, and both the government and the family need to accept it.
Like any other major decision, though, it should not be made by simply checking a box on the back of a driver's license. It should be made before witnesses, clearly documented as such, and laminated into the license or in some other way given an official marker or imprint. Granted, we do have, here, a mini-form on the back of the license, with lines for signatures of the card-holder and two witnesses, but it's a little, barely legible sticker on the back of the card, and, with our signatures on the face of the license, it woudn't be too difficult to find somebody to fake stuff... who's to say that the doctor, nurse, paramedic or somebody didn't mark up the back of the license while nobody was looking? I'm pretty sure that not all doctors are saints -- and that even saints would be hard pressed to resist fudging the documents if it meant saving a number of lives.
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