If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?
Changing one law? I’d change the default on organ donation.
Not by forcing anyone’s hand. Simply by making organ donation opt-out rather than opt-in.
Because defaults shape what happens next. They don’t remove freedom, but they do remove obstacles. And in this case, reducing this obstacle is quietly, profoundly life-giving.
Most of us are not opposed to donation. We just never get around to filling in the form. Life is busy. The admin gets postponed. Then a day comes when choices are made under pressure and grief, and what might have been a clear “yes” becomes a complicated “I don’t know.”
A default opt-out system nudges us toward love without coercion. It assumes generosity, while still honouring conscience. If someone doesn’t want to participate—for any reason at all—they can opt out. Cleanly. Respectfully. No judgement. Just clarity.
But for everyone else, the law quietly becomes a kind of public kindness: a system designed to help others live.
There are laws that restrain harm. This would be a law that enables life.
The Afterword 
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