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The Waiting Game: How States Can Solve The Organ-Donation Crisis, Meredith M. Havekost
The Waiting Game: How States Can Solve The Organ-Donation Crisis, Meredith M. Havekost
Vanderbilt Law Review
Thousands of patients in the United States live in limbo every day waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and the gap between the number of people who need a transplant and the number of available organs widens every year. Every state currently allows individuals to unilaterally indicate their intent to donate their organs upon death, but in practice, family members are frequently allowed to override the express intentions of decedents. In addition, the current U.S. "opt-in" system fails to reach its full potential because many eligible decedents never express their desires to become or not to become organ donors, and …