Should organ donors get free funerals?

11 October 2011
Last updated at 16:45












Many believe that organ donation should simply be about altruism

Paying the funeral expenses of organ donors is a good idea - but safeguards are needed, argues ethicist Simon Rippon.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics recommends that the NHS offers funeral expense payments to people who sign the organ donor register, on the condition that

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