Kurt Sweat
Economist and former Stanford grad student who co-authored the proposal to reimburse donor families for funeral and related costs to increase organ donation.
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Mar 2, 2026 • 9min
Should the families of organ donors be compensated?
Alex Chan, a Harvard economist who helped design a plan to compensate donor families, and Kurt Sweat, an economist who proposes reimbursing funeral and travel costs, debate paying families to boost organ donation. They discuss the scale of the shortage, legal barriers from the 1984 law, estimated impacts and savings, ethical concerns about money and altruism, and practical safeguards for grieving families.
