The US should stop leaving it up to people to volunteer for organ donation in the event of their death. Over 6000 Americans die every year for lack of an organ to transplant.

I criticize Rall's decision to protest the inequities of the US organ transplant system by refusing to donate. Such refusal exacerbates the lack of organs which causes those inequities. I signed up as an organ donor when I first got a driver's license.

I disagree with one of his statements. That someone believes in a religion does not imply the person is an idiot. What these people lack is not intelligence, but rather the moral courage to face the painful likely truths. Some of them go to extreme lengths of cleverness to construct arguments that bury the fallacy where it is hard to see.

However, I agree with his conclusion, and with the point that we should stop being superstitious about corpses. This means, in particular, that we should stop making a fuss over the corpses of the deceased. This fuss is strongly encouraged by the mainstream media, and that could lap over into the issue of organ donation.