The part everyone leaves out is that the entire operation will contribute to the estates of every participant but one: the person who grew the organ. And, in fact, you will find that median donor estate is far lower than that of every other participant: the nurses, the OPO employees, the surgical team. They have the rarest part. They get nothing. And they’re poorer.
Matthew 25:29 comes to mind
> For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
This is a good point. The author discusses how in Iran, you can sell a kidney, Netherlands provides financial resources to live donors, and how Israel incentivizes donations by increasing the priory of family members of organ donors.
It’s voluntary, and many of us are happy to contribute our livers if we are in the unlikely scenario of being in a vegetative state so that it can help a recipient. I don’t think the recipients estate is financially enriched by the procedure- in fact the opposite. I’m no Christian but isn’t that something Jesus would do? He’d give his earthy body obviously, and certainly not for financial incentive.
Matthew 25:29 comes to mind
> For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.