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Article: Organ donation wishes not honored; Survey: Organizations will not remove organs if family members protest
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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CHICAGO (AP) - Deciding you want to donate your organs after
death is no guarantee it will happen, especially if your relatives
object.
A government survey of the nation's 61 organ procurement
organizations found wide variations in how they decide whether to
remove organs from the dead for transplant. Just 29 of the groups
have an official policy on whether to follow the wishes of the
deceased or of family members.
If a person had indicated in a living will or on a donor card
that he wanted to be a donor but his survivors opposed it, only
seven groups - 12 percent - said they would probably remove the
organs.
Fifty-two of the groups surveyed - 85 percent - said they rarely
have documentation ...