Ishould the next of kin of an orgen provider recive any money for the orgen that was used on an other person?

Question

I would like to know why it is called a doner program. it seems to me that the only person donating anything is the person giving up the orgen. It costs about 300,,000 dollers for a person to get a heart transplant, that money is devided between the doc and the hospitel. The only one not getting a dime is the person that provided the heart. Somehow that dosent seem right.

Answer 1

First of all, it's an organ. Of course it's also "donor," "dollars," 'divided," and "hospital." But you got "transplant" right, interesting.

Second, it's called a donor program. That means that you are "donating" the organ. It's not called a "seller" program where you're selling the organ. If you feel like not making the donation, then don't. Just like a charity donation. Would a charity pay for a charitable donation? No. That simply makes no sense.

Third, the person is dead. Why do they need money? If it was their wish that it was given away, I say respect their wish.

Lastly, right or wrong (I vote right), American society has seen fit to outlaw the selling of organs. The reasoning is that it could potentially create a sub-class of people that make their money by selling body parts. Think about it...if you have no money to feed your kids, think about how vulnerable you would be to some shark offering you $5k for a kidney or an eye.

Answer 2

I would suggest "YES".... There should be some compensation, to the N O K if they have been involved by inadvertant expense or are inconvienced to any major degree.. It takes time to organize a team to remove an organ and the N O K may have to delay funeral and travel arrangements at a time when they are 'highly charged' psychologically by grief over the loss of a relative.

Organ donation at the time it has to be done tends to occur in hectic circumstances due to haste required to ensure the organ is viable during removal, transportation and implantation.

It all sounds easy but it is not!! The psychological trauma surrounding death can be great and I feel a token donation as a sign of appreciation would help the N O K (of course it might not! It might just precipitate a fight as to who should get it! )

Answer 3

The person who donated the heart did so because they were a good person and knew going into it that they would not get paid.

In addition, I believe there are laws that prevent the selling of body parts (which is what you are suggesting). Considering we are not allowed to sell people or babies either - it makes sense that you can not sell your body parts.

The doctor and hospital are getting paid for rendering a service (the transplant).

Are you just a greedy relative looking to get free money when you did not have to give up anything and it cost you nothing? You know, there is too much of this baloney entitlement "I get free money for nothing" mindset in this country and this is a great example.. geez

Answer 4

There is a complex system to distrute available organs in the fairest manner that increases the number of people who are helped. Adding payments seems nice, as we all want to help the people who lost a loved one, but could really complicate things. How do you decide how much an organ is worth (tissues from a donor can help a dozen different people), keep bidding wars from going on, do you pay on retreival, or successful implantation, or after recovery, keep the wealthy from out-buying from someone who is medically more deserving but poorer. And, you add in a factor of financial gain to people who have to made medical decisions for an ill person, which can seriously cloud their judgement.

Answer 5

i just recieved a new liver because i was dyin of liver cancer for the past 5 years!!!

i never get to find out who gave me the liver or who this persons family is so far!!!

but i did recieve a copy of the bill from the insurance company!!

the total includin nursin home, medication, intensive care, liver, transplant team, mri's, xrays, total kidney and renal failure recovery- around $250,000, plus i have to take blood test all the time and anti rejection medication, and painkillers and muscle relaxers and "happy pills" because of post traumatic stress for the rest of my life!!!

but not one dime went to the organ donor!!!

it cost $3,00000 a month to keep me alive now after the transplant!!!

its all between insurance, hospital, doctors and the whole team and equipment an medication!!!

donors dont recive any compensation!!!

unless there is a black market i dont know about!!!

Answer 6

It doesn't make sense to you because you are seeing the organ as a commodity. Is there something so wrong with society that it cannot be grateful for one person giving another the gift of life? Does it have to involve an exchange of money or a financial reward?

Answer 7

Ignore it, but report it to your email provider - defo scam. You could always email them back with some garbage, but this may not be such a great idea as they will know that the email address is live and might be able to hack into your machine and get sensitive information ie bank details, passwords etc. Best policy, bin them and ignore them.

Answer 8

Well, the person who donated it is dead. Plus, they donate it to save a life, not so you can have cash in your pocket when they get buried.

Let me get this straight: Someone in your family dies, you're the next of kin, and you want money because THEY donated something that never belonged to you?

Answer 9

99.9% of the time the donor is deceased if the heart is missing. The donor deserves restitution not the relatives. Was that in the contract--was it???

Answer 10

So long as it doesn't cost the next of kin, he or she should not receive money. That is selling organs, which is illegal.