Management
The Generosity of the Dead
French law stipulates that those who do not opt out of organ donation during their
lifetime automatically become potential donors after death:
The removal [of organs for transplantation] may be carried out if the person
has not objected, during her lifetime, to such a removal. This objection may
be declared by any means, and in particular by recording it in the appropriate
automated national register.
If the doctor is not directly aware of the wishes of the deceased, she must seek
to ascertain from those close to the deceased whether she objected during her
lifetime to the donation of organs ….
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