Anatomical gift act · Wisconsin
In Wisconsin you can refuse to donate by signing a record, in your will, or, if you have 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. Wis. Stat. § 157.06(7)-(8).
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. Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin’s own code.
What Wisconsin asks
Anatomical gifts — Refusal to make an anatomical gift; effect of refusal · Anatomical gifts — Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation
Quoted from Wisconsin’s enacted code, in full and unedited.
How a refusal is made (7)(a)
An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by doing any of the following: 1. Signing a record refusing to make an anatomical gift or, if physically unable to sign, directing another to sign the record as provided in sub. (2m). 2. Including a refusal to make an anatomical gift in the individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death. 3. If the individual has a terminal illness or injury, communicating in any manner a refusal to make an anatomical gift to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
Wis. Stat. § 157.06(7)
What an unrevoked refusal does (7)(c)
Except as provided in sub. (8) (h), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by an individual set forth in a refusal to make an anatomical gift under this subsection, the individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift under this subsection of his or her body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.
Wis. Stat. § 157.06(7)
A revocation is not a refusal (8)(b)
A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under sub. (6) (b) is not a refusal to make an anatomical gift and does not bar another person authorized to make an anatomical gift under sub. (4) from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under sub. (5) and does not bar a person who is authorized to make an anatomical gift under sub. (9) from making an anatomical gift under sub. (10).
Wis. Stat. § 157.06(8)
You tell us your state, we show you what it asks for before you sign, and your page names the state you signed in. Your signed document is what carries legal weight. We host it and make it findable.