Anatomical gift act · Indiana
In Indiana 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. Ind. Code § 29-2-16.1-6.
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. Indiana 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 Indiana 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 Indiana’s own code.
What Indiana asks
Refusal of anatomical gifts · Persons prohibited from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift; donor revocation of an anatomical gift; unemancipated minors
Quoted from Indiana’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 subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign; (2) the individual's will, including if 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 to at least two (2) adults, and one (1) of the adults must be a disinterested witness.
Ind. Code § 29-2-16.1-6
Reads “subject to subsection (b)”. That subsection is not reproduced here.
What an unrevoked refusal does (d)
Except as provided in section 7(h) of this chapter, 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 another person from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.
Ind. Code § 29-2-16.1-6
A revocation is not a refusal (b)
A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 5 of this chapter is not a refusal and does not bar the person specified in section 3 or 8 of this chapter from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 4 or 9 of this chapter.
Ind. Code § 29-2-16.1-7
A card carried on you, in the statute (m)(4)
If the will, card, or other document, or executed copy thereof, has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by: ... (4) a signed card or document found on the decedent's person or in the decedent's effects.
Ind. Code § 29-2-16.1-10(m)(4)
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