The front page on Jan. 21 posed the question of who could possibly want to receive the organs of a murderer. The answer is very simple: anyone who needed them. If your suffering could be alleviated and you could live a normal life by getting a needed transplant, you wouldn't care if that organ came from a murderer or the pope (who, incidentally, has signed on to be an organ donor).
The sad fact is that most of those waiting for a donor organ die before they can get one. Most people, whether due to selfishness, laziness or apathy, have not signed on to have their organs donated after their death. When it comes to getting an organ, however, there is no advantage to those who have signed to be a donor; there is no incentive.
Those who feel that donors should get the first shot at being recipients should join LifeSharers, a group in which members agree that after their death, they want their organs to go to other members who might need them, and if no members need the organs, then they go to anyone outside of the group who needs them, as is already the case.
Larry E. Nazimek,
Logan Square
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