ren of all races and ethnic backgrounds die every day for lack of a donated organ (Dowd, 2003).
A CBS News Report (2002) revealed that in the past decade, the number of cadaver organs donated nationwide annually has remained between 5,000 to 6,000, while the number of people who need transplants has jumped from about 20,000 to 80,000. This alarming figure indicates that depending solely on compassionate donations is not working.
The biggest wait is for kidneys. Iran is the only country in the world to wipe out its kidney transplant wait by offering financial rewards. The prime reason that some kind of payment should be made to organ donors is that thousands of lives will be saved each year. This is a sound medical as well as ethical reason. In a perfect
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