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Funeral expense reimbursement as a strategy to enhance organ donation and transplantation access
1Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
We propose amending the National Organ Transplant Act to permit reimbursement of funeral expenses for deceased organ donors, analogous to current practices for whole-body donors. This ethically consistent policy could increase organ donation rates by 9-35%, saving 105,000-419,000 life-years and generating $200-800 million annually in Medicare savings-without commodifying human organs, compromising altruism, or undermining established ethical standards governing organ donation.
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