Anatomical gift act · Connecticut
In Connecticut you can refuse to donate by signing a record, in your will, or, during a terminal illness or injury, by telling at least two adults, one of whom has no interest in the decision. If you sign it yourself, you do not need witnesses. Once you have refused and not taken it back, no one else can donate your body or any part of it. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289f.
If you came here to get off the registry
Taking your name off the organ donor registry is a revocation. So is removing the designation from your driver’s license. Connecticut law treats a revocation and a refusal as two different things, and only the refusal settles it.
A revocation withdraws the gift you made. It does not stop anyone else from making the gift for you. Only a refusal does that, and Connecticut requires one to be signed. Until you sign one, the decision is still open to someone else.
Both provisions are quoted in full below, from Connecticut’s own code.
What Connecticut asks
Methods of refusing to make an anatomical gift · Effect of anatomical gift, amendment, revocation or refusal
Quoted from Connecticut’s enacted code, in full and unedited.
How a refusal is made (a)
An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by: (1) A record signed by: (A) The individual; or (B) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign; (2) the individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or (3) any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289f
Reads “subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section”. That subsection is not reproduced here.
What an unrevoked refusal does (d)
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) of section 19a-289g, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the individual set forth in the refusal, an individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289f
A revocation is not a refusal (b)
A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 19a-289e is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in section 19a-289c or 19a-289h from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 19a-289d or 19a-289i.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289g
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