Organ donation: the call for “health citizenship” in the face of a worrying increase in opposition to removal

The patient is brain dead. Doctors are certain his undamaged organs could find new life in someone else’s body. Verification is made: he is not registered on the national register of refusals (RNR) which allows everyone to object during his lifetime to a possible removal of his organs at his death. In theory, all the lights are green to start the process that could lead to the transplant of a waiting patient. But now, the family of the deceased opposes it, stopping net the second chance of a heart, a kidney, a lung…