Is it ethical to prioritize patients for organ allocation according to their values about organ donation?

KA Bramstedt - Progress in transplantation, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
… the form of a community of individuals called LifeSharers. Using directed donation, this group
… In the case of LifeSharers, the potential to increase the pool of deceased donor organs is a …

Changing organ allocation will increase organ supply

DJ Undis - DePaul L. Rev., 2005 - HeinOnline
… LifeSharers members in the next twelve months.When members start getting organs from
other members, LifeSharers expects a lot of publicity and a large jump in our membership. …

LifeSharers: an “opting in” paradigm already in operation

SP Calandrillo, LR Cohen, DJ Undis - The American Journal of …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… LifeSharers is identical, or nearly identical, to his proposal in several of these areas. There
… LifeSharers and Steinberg's proposal, and we believe these differences make LifeSharers a …

LifeSharers: increasing organ supply through directed donation

DJ Undis - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… And LifeSharers does not exclusively benefit its members. LifeSharers members all agree to
… On the contrary, LifeSharers increases the supply of organs so fewer people will be denied …

Bonus allocation points for those willing to donate organs

RM Veatch - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… LifeSharers, for example, attempts to create an arrangement … who is not a member of
LifeSharers would be passed over in … skills to learn about the LifeSharers club. Similarly, the less …

Preventive measures may not reduce the demand for kidney transplantation. There is reason to suppose this is not the case

B Hippen - Kidney international, 2006 - kidney-international.org
… LifeSharers is already using voluntary reciprocal altruism to increase organ donation
rates in the United States.LifeSharers is … in LifeSharers is free and open to all at www.lifesharers.org …

Solidarity: An Important Aspect of the “Opting in” Paradigm

L Jacoby - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… , and we believe these differences make LifeSharers a superior tool for reducing the organ
… LifeSharers membership is available to everyone who is willing to donate their organs, …

Jumping the line, charitably: Analysis and remedy of donor-priority rule

T Dai, R Zheng, K Sycara - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
… LifeSharers, a nonprofit network of organ donors who pledge to donate their organs to other
members first in need in the event of premature death. LifeSharers … of LifeSharers does not …

Response to “Members First: The Ethics of Donating Organs and Tissues to Groups” by Timothy F. Murphy and Robert M. Veatch (CQ Vol 15, No 1)

A Tabarrok, DJ Undis - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2006 - cambridge.org
… LifeSharers can be large even when everyone is a member. Furthermore, it is not true that
the value of LifeSharers … raises the value of joining LifeSharers. Thus the last nondonor can …

Non-family directed donation: The perils of policy-making

BJ Spielman - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… Let’s also put aside the fact that LifeSharers operates under the oversight of an advisory …
LifeSharers. Anyone can join LifeSharers, regardless of his or her current medical condition. …