Consent and organ donation

[sawyl]

I don't have a problem with presumed consent for organ donation. In light of a letter in today's Guardian from Peter Ayton, I think it's morally unjustifiable to retain the current system:

Consent rates for organ donation in countries where the system is to opt in are far lower than consent rates where one has to opt out. In Germany (12%), the Netherlands (27.5%), Denmark (4.25%) and the UK (17.17%), where one must opt-in, consent rates are all well below those in Austria (99.98%), Belgium (98%), France (99.91%), Hungary (99.97%), Poland (99.5%), Portugal (99.64%) and Sweden (85.9%), where one must opt out.

Maybe I've got it easy. I'm not religious. I don't care what happens to my body after I'm dead. In fact, I think it's meaningless to talk of it being my body because, if I'm no longer around to own it — to assert some sort of right of ownership over it — then it has clearly ceased to be mine in any meaningful way. Thus, I actively want any bits and pieces of my body left after my death to be put to good use, in much the same way that I might want my nephew to have my comic book collection...