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  Should we force everyone to, upon their deaths, donate all of the organs that remain in good working form to save the lives of others?
  
  I think this would be a wonderful thing. I realize it would never happen, and won't push for it, beacuse I realize it will upset a lot of people and be too unpopular due to how many people view death/the dead. But I wish we could do this. Dead people don't need their organs, they're dead. They don't need anything and they also have no feelings. Dead bodies are intimate objects like chairs or stuffed animals. Dead bodies are not capable of experiencing any sort of harm. 
  The only reason "respecting" dead bodies matters is beacuse it hurts the feelings of living people when they find out a dead body was "mistreated". I say this as someone who is an organ donor and would be 100% cool with leaving my body to science. (It's something I've thought about recently but I haven't gotten around to researching where as my odds of dying soon are low so it's not high on my to-do list.) I genuinely don't care what happens to my flesh after I'm gone. It's really a shame to waste it when we could help actual living people who can still be helped. Assuming you consider saving lives a good thing, I suppose.
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  The analogy that was most convincing to me was this:
  There are thousands of people on transplant lists around the country/world. Many of them will die imminently without a transplant. Most of us could spare some parts of some organs. Should we have to give them to others? What if it has no lasting effect on our health? What if it does but that it’s mild? Very few people would support a scheme where people had to share organs with others.
  Now, many of those organs are still useable when you die. Should we force everyone to, upon their deaths, donate all of the organs that remain in good working form to save the lives of others?
  If you believe a person should have autonomy over what happens to their body even AFTER death, despite the fact that taking away that autonomy would save the lives of others, then you cannot be anti-choice even if the fetus is a fully-fledged person from conception.