Shouldn organs be allocated based on medical considerations, not personal characteristics?
A. Non-medical considerations and personal characteristics already play a role in the organ allocation system. Examples include age, location, time spent on the waiting list, and ability to pay. By also using donor status in allocating organs, LifeSharers increases the number of donors and saves lives. LifeSharers respects the medical considerations that are used to allocate organs. We ask only that those considerations be applied first to organ donors. This is already being done for live organ donors. LifeSharers helps make sure it’s also done for people who promise to donate when they die.
