Life Sharers Featured by Time

LifeSharers is featured in Kathleen Kingsbury, Donor Deal, Time.com, June 14, 2007.  Here are a few excerpts from the article:

Americans love a square deal. The idea of the quid pro quo, the something for something, lies at the heart of our very sense of fairness. But there’s one area in which something for nothing is much closer to the rule, and it’s a transaction on which people’s very lives turn: organ donation.

About 90% of Americans say they support organ donation, but only 30% have actually signed up to part with their parts after they die. * * *

A former insurance executive, [David] Undis is the founder of the Nashville-based nonprofit Lifesharers. Launched in 2002, Lifesharers is a no-fee network of about 9,000 members nationwide who have pledged to donate their organs when they die–but only to other members on the list. * * *

[Undis] maintains that giving an organ to a non-donor is “like giving the lottery jackpot to someone who didn’t buy a ticket.” Sadly, the odds of winning an organ under the current rules seem only slightly better.