"Members Only" club for organ donors

The controversy surrounding LifeSharers:

So far, 4,526 people from all 50 states have joined LifeSharers, pledging to donate their organs only to other members when they die. If there is no suitable match, a person’s organs can be donated to a nonmember.

Undis believes restricting organs only to people who are willing to donate their own is the fairest way to distribute precious organs, while others balk at the notion.

As Dr. Douglas Hanto, chief of transplantation at Harvard Medical School, puts it, an organ “ought to go to the person dying in the ICU, not the person sitting at home with a LifeSharers club card.”

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