Black and Hispanic donors are needed, especially for kidney transplants. About half of the people on the waiting list for kidney transplants are minorities. Medical professionals use tissue matching to select recipients for donated kidneys and that match is closest when the recipient and donor are from the same race. Black and Hispanic donors are needed, especially for kidney transplants. Families of donors are never charged for costs related to the recovery process.
Donation is a gift.
Neither your family or your estate will be billed. Your family will be responsible for medical care prior to your death, the same as if donation had not occurred. Only celebrities and the wealthy get transplants. Donated organs and tissues go to the patient in greatest need whose criteria most closely match the donor's. Recipients are not chosen by race, income, religion, social or celebrity status.