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Funeral insurance group Monuta is to cut funeral costs by €150 if the deceased is an organ donor. Monuta, the biggest funeral insurance group in the country [the Netherlands], said it was responding to calls by the Kidney Foundation.
Thanks to Dave Undis at Lifesharers for the pointer.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on May 16, 2007 at 02:32 PM in Economics | Permalink
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Hmm. In the US, you can't sell your organs, so I would imagine it would be tricky for funeral homes to provide a discount to family members who give away the deceased's organs. What's European law around organ donation vs. selling vs. 'discounts'?
Posted by: LP at May 16, 2007 3:05:47 PM
LP is right. Any group supporting this has just contradicted their stance against payment for organs,
if they had such a stance.
Posted by: Person at May 16, 2007 5:35:38 PM
Organ donor discounts should be applied to health insurance as well.
Posted by: Chairman Mao at May 16, 2007 11:03:37 PM
As long as Singapore's combination of: 1. presumed consent with 2. zero transparency, is avoided, the public has a chance to monitor and override anything it deems morally objectionable.
http://www.kidneyfund.org/pl_cadaveric_organ.asp
One of the spooky things you encounter when you are reading about Singapore is the paranoid suspicions of substandard medical treatment from organ harvesting incentives.
I've encountered this in blogs and a book written by this English teacher who lived there for a short time.
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