Topic > Colby's legacy: Inspiring awareness about organ donation

While people who offer parts of their bodies to others after death may not necessarily give their families much financial comfort, those who volunteer their bodies to medical schools for practice and research are generally able to significantly reduce funeral expenses (Wellington & Sayre, 2011). However, Wellington and Sayre (2011) theorize that decreasing burial prices may also devalue the number of individual parts donated, but their studies reveal no support for this hypothesis. Even if cadaver donations exceeded separate organ donations, these organisms would allow medical students to gain more information about unknown diseases which would help eliminate the time and money a patient would spend on unnecessary treatment methods (Wellington & Sayre, 2011 ). ; Minz, Kashyap and Udgiri, 2003). Furthermore, living donors are able to help others without being subjected to financial burdens (Wellington & Sayre, 2011). While profits from organ donations are morally wrong in the eyes of humanity and illegal due to the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, many states allow living donors to earn thousands of dollars in compensation on their tax returns and recruit state employees with a maximum of one month repayment time while they are in recovery (Wellington & Sayre, 2011). Ultimately, ethical concerns related to monetary motivations for organ donations continue to benefit society as a whole because they allow patients with life-threatening diseases to receive mandatory procedures to save their