[Ethical and legal prerequisites of living donors]

Patients in the waiting list die because there are too few postmortem organ donors. A way out of this dilemma would be living donors. The regulations on this in the transplantation act from 1997 are, however, very rudimentary and above all very restrictive. Furthermore, they have been partially superseded by medical advances. This leads to substantial insecurity for transplantation physicians in the practice. This article examines the current law on living donors without being limited solely to it. Furthermore, attempts at reforms will be put forward.