ThePlayDrive
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I'm willing to risk abuse when the the costs outweigh the benefits. In this case, they don't. Moreover, post mortem rituals aren't just about having the body in time for burial - which probably wouldn't happen since the government has never done very well with time - it can also be about having an intact (no organs removed) body. There are also people who believe that the body needs to be immediately buried and so on. Jesus, just let people be buried the way they want to be buried.With any mandate passed, like Obamacare for example, there is the risk of abuses. They would be punitized through the legal system to the fullest extent.
Families would likely have the body in time for burial. I'm no surgeon, but I don't think it takes more than a day to take the organs out of a still-viable body.
I'm not sure if exceptions should be made for the religious. If Obamacare didn't make exceptions for the religious, then I doubt exceptions would be made for this, either.
Dead people are lumps of matter. If the government can manage the complexities of living people through, say, healthcare and Social Security, withdrawing viable organs from dead bodies would be incredibly simple.