Would more people be organ donors if there was a good tax break for it?

Ahh man, thats the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time!
How do you enjoy your tax break if your dead and just donated your organs? I love it :D
Oh ok, sorry. I get what you mean.
No, I do not believe they would. The people I know that do not wish to donate their organs, don’t because they have a creepy feeling about it, not because it isn’t profitable.

I think people who are designated organ donors should be placed on a priority list should they ever need an organ.

If there are two people who need an organ, and one of them was too lazy to put the organ donor thing on his driver license…. then give the organ to the one who did.

I support your idea, too.

I would not mind that idea. It is different from paying for organs.

I don’t really see how it would work out. I’ve been registered as an organ donor since I was 16. If we gave people a tax break for the next 50 + years, I think it would hurt in the long run because that money would need to be made up somewhere else along the line.

It’s sad that more people don’t donate their organs once they are dead and I wish more people would, but I don’t think a tax break is the right way to increase those numbers.

How about an estate tax break if you are an organ donor and an organ is used at the time of death?

I think living organ donors could be offered a substantial one time tax credit. I also like @Kraigmo‘s idea of registered donors being given first priority on waiting lists. As to what becomes of the organs for a donor who dies, maybe they can make sure a living will has a clause of who they want given first priority, instructions for preservation in an organ bank for strictly blood relative future use or even an amount per organ they’d want their organs sold for (instead of donated) and the proceeds designated.

It’s ridiculous that the only person who does not make out on this transaction is the donor. Why can the doctor, hopital, ambulance, all make money but the donor’s family cannot? I don’t get this system where we’re free to do whatever we want to our bodies as long as we don’t make any money.

If you wanted the transplant system to work, privitize it! Right? Let the free market decide. No one would need a kidney again, hearts would be aplenty and livers would abound. Unfortunately we are not entitled to that kind of freedom.

Could you imagine the TV commercials?