Altruistic Living Unrelated Organ Donation at the Crossroads of Ethics and Religion. A Case Study (Essay‪)‬

Religious beliefs, medical ethics and altruistic organ donation Living unrelated donation out of purely altruist reasons is a phenomenon that has started to develop especially in the US and the Northern European countries. US statistics for the recent years show a slow, but encouraging increase in numbers of organs transplanted in altruist donor-oriented programs. Actually, if compared both with deceased donation and living related donation, living unrelated donation (LURD) is the only category that steadily increased after 1990. (1)