I'm not currently a donor but I fully intend to become one once I figure out how. I actually do agree that the legal default should be donor, as I think a large number of non-donors were just people who don't care/can't be assed to go down and become one. If you don't want to donate and its important to you that you don't, you ought to make an effort to register as a non-donor.
Of course, I do understand religious obligation. Some religions don't believe in that sort of thing and its not for me to judge that (I know Jehovah's Witnesses can't accept transfusions and such, and likely can't give or receive organs either). Of course, if you're a willing non-donor it stands to reason you shouldn't be given organs either. Which is another reason to default yet and register no - now, donors and non-donors can receive organs and it would be rather cruel to deny organs to someone because they forgot to register as a donor, but if you have to actively become a non-donor, you're fully informed of the consequences.
On the other hand, though, I don't want anyone to die. Even people who want organs but won't give any.
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