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Article: Let's End Silence About Organ Donation
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 9, 1995
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People don't like to think about dying. So they don't talk about
it. They don't tell family members that it's OK to buy the cheapest
casket rather than bankrupt the family with a lavish funeral. And
they don't tell each other that it's OK to donate their organs to
someone else.
Human nature itself is a major obstacle to increasing the supply
of human organs available for transplantation.
Popular wisdom has held that doctors were at fault: They simply
weren't asking family members to donate the organs of a dying
relative. A new study, however, blames family members. More than
half refused to give permission for the organs to be donated.
Permission of next of kin is required in ...