Gift planners can and do form close personal relationships with donors. Indeed, this may be one of the reasons for the success of a particular gift planner. Similarly complex ethical issues arise when it comes to balancing your own legitimate interests as professionals with careers or even your legitimate interests as human beings with lives to lead and families to feed against the demands of donors and empl oyers. These are not easy questions to resolve. There may not be simple answers in all cases of conflicting loyalties.
Most donations remain in the cadaveric unrelated category.
But we have seen increases in living related donations in the area of kidney tr ansplants. I wish to express my appreciation to my co-panelists Sarah Iley, Dr. Ed Pearce, and Linda Clemow for their helpful discussion. I however am solely responsible for these remarks.