Q How can organ donation rates be increased?
Just as the state is responsible for the distribution of the assets of people who die without a will, the state also should monitor and protect people's wishes to donate their organs after death.
Relatives are not following the instructions of their near and dear dead ones. They are even destroying their organ donation cards with the moral support of their religious beliefs. I call that premeditated murder of likely recipients of the donated organs.
Religious organisations do not support such donations because they do not directly benefit their congregations. If we devise donations along the lines of Hindu organs for Hindus, or Christian organs for Christians or Muslim organs for Muslims and so on, religious leaders will fall head over heals for the donation concept and will encourage their disciples to be donors. Or better still, if we narrow it to Baptist organs for Baptists, or Catholic organs for Catholics and so on, the religious heads will ask their followers to offer their organs for donation. What a shame!
So I urge all religious leaders to unite and spread the wings of angels and give life to people who need organs by asking their followers to donate their organs after death.
Nalini Daswani, US
