Julian Sanchez of Reason has an interesting article on Whose Organs Are They, Anyway?:
David Undis thought he had found a simple solution to a grave problem. In order to encourage people to become organ donors, he founded LifeSharers, a group whose members agree to have their organs made available for transplant upon death, on the condition that other members of the group get preferential access to those organs. In its first year of existence, LifeSharers has attracted 820 members, a distinguished board of advisors, and a flurry of press coverage. There's only one problem: The medical establishment is almost uniformly against it.
I wish this venture well, even though it faces a serious uphill battle and will very likely be the subject of countless regulatory and legislative assaults in the future. For an idea of what could happen, should we take a series of wrong turns somewhere regarding organ donation, check out this frightening short story by Russell Madden.