[torchthemummy]

If it were legal to buy and sell organs, the organ shortage would go away overnight. People would have more of an incentive to donate their organs when they die to help their family financially.

That's a great point. It could still be something that is a nominal level of cost to a recipient and their insurance to the extent of covering all funeral costs plus a nugget (say +/- $10,000 for an organ).

I figure you don't want to make it too valuable otherwise there will be people/relatives "speeding up" the death schedule.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Donating something like a kidney, of which a health person needs but one, is different from donating a heart or an eye.