BMJ 2007;334:1131 (2 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39226.657859.DB
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Undertakers offer cash incentive for organ donation
Tony Sheldon
Utrecht
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One of the largest firms of undertakers in the Netherlands is offering a reduction in the cost of funerals to the relatives of dead people who have had an organ removed for donation. The initiative follows a call from the Dutch Kidney Foundation for new ideas to boost donation.
The foundation recently commissioned a study by the Dutch Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel), which found attitudes to donation changing, with more people against it (www.nivel.nl).
Since 1998 the Netherlands has had a voluntary national register on which people can record their wish for or against donation. But only five million out of 12 million adults have done so.
And the Nivel study indicates that the proportion of people who have not registered but who would refuse to donate if asked has almost doubled in three years to 29%. At the same time the percentage of relatives who
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