Funeral expense reimbursement to enhance organ donation and transplantation , by Chan and Sweat

 It's legal to pay funeral expenses for whole-body donors (for research) but not for organ donors for transplantation.  Here's a call to change that:

Chan, A., Sweat, K. Funeral expense reimbursement as a strategy to enhance organ donation and transplantation access. npj Health Syst. 2, 39 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44401-025-00046-z 

Abstract: We propose amending the National Organ Transplant Act to permit reimbursement of funeral expenses for deceased organ donors, analogous to current practices for whole-body donors. This ethically consistent policy could increase organ donation rates by 9–35%, saving 105,000–419,000 life-years and generating $200–800 million annually in Medicare savings—without commodifying human organs, compromising altruism, or undermining established ethical standards governing organ donation.