It could be argued that consent is required for research and medical treatment because there may be risks involved and that these risks no longer apply post-mortem, but this does not take into account all the underlying reasons for consent.
The underlying spirit of informed consent may be lost and replaced by the traditional attitude that physicians decide what the patient should do.
Although consent policies are evolving, the underlying rationale for respecting such a broad consent (that is, respect for autonomy) has not been elucidated.
An appeal revives the underlying debate: Should shelter, as a 1981 consent decree maintains, be the ultimate safety net for those so poor, troubled or "socially dysfunctional" that they slip through the cracks of other systems?
Even by fixing the bug, there remains the underlying issue of changing visible contact info without consent.
The underlying thought is that when opting out remains easy, so-called presumed consent is perfectly consonant with patient sovereignty (Sunstein and Thaler 2008).
In justifying its original decision, Time Warner remarked that it "did not consent" to the Al Jazeera sale, prompting the Atlantic magazine to remark that the underlying rationale may have been "about more than business".
The simple truth is that many of us are, at heart, incapable of consenting to the continued possession of nuclear weapons until states begin to solve the underlying differences between them.
This approach aligned with the underlying program philosophy of building capacity in participating communities and enabling them to learn about research and the consent process.
The underlying problem remains.
The underlying injury remains.
