Tax Credits for Organ Donation?!?!

At the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences taking place this week at Montreal's Concordia University, Mr. De Wispelaere an ethicist and philopsopher propsosed a new measure to increase organ donation rates in Canada.

The idea is turning to a second consenter — a spouse, next-of-kin or family friend — who would openly discuss the idea of organ donation with the patient at a less emotional time rather than when the family is grieving and medical staff may be reluctant to approach them.

The second part of the idea is to offer a government tax credit to the second consenter after the donor's death, whether the organs are used for transplant or not.

To read more, go to:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/06/03/organ-donation-tax-credit.html