Abstract

A recent focus on organ donation and transplantation in the United Kingdom has given way to an international debate on the ethics of the conditional donation of deceased organs for transplantation. Currently in the UK, no conditional donations are accepted. However, while some conditions which may be attached to donations, such as racially motivated ones, may be ethically unacceptable, not all conditions are equal. For example, those conditions based on familial relations or bonds of kinship should not be considered as being morally divisive.