What is the Rationale for or Against Contacts Between Donor Families and Transplant Recipients?

Abstract

This article examines the intellectual foundations for policies and practices concerning contacts between organ and tissue donor families and transplant recipients. Should there be contacts between donor families and transplant recipients? What might be an example of the form such contacts could or should take? These questions are explored, with the goal of stimulating open discussion and rationalizing the theoretical foundations behind policies and practices in this field.