Organ Donations

I heard on a parliamentary report today that only 198 people have volunteered to donate organs. 198 in the whole of Australia. There is something wrong here because we are not against it as a nation and most of us would know of someone who is still alive because of that wonderful organ donation. I am not in favour of compulsory organ donation because of all the reasons I have stated before. So what are the issues? What are the things we have not come to terms with? What is holding us back? Is everyone like me and my family? We are quite clear in our family that the living are the ones who have to make that decision because losing someone is very traumatic. We are also clear that we would support organ donation if it were something asked of us? Are the stories we are hearing not inspiring us or are the other stories of things going wrong putting us off? I have heard more of successes. I haven't heard personally of anything going wrong. I don't think we should make this a mandatory matter but I do believe we need to look at how we can successfully allow organ donation to occur. On the whole it is something we support and something we would want for our families. Some thing isn't right about how we are going about it.