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At the beginning of my research into organ donation, I truly felt that financial compensation would be the best way to increase donation rates. In 1998 my father received a life saving liver transplant. The wait for a donor liver was to say the least very excruciating. My father was in a comma for six weeks prior to that wonderful day when through some other families grief we were able to see our father receive the life saving gift. The doctors told us that it had come down to a matter of days if not hours that separated my father from one who was saved to one who died while waiting for a needed transplant. This is why I feel that there has to be something that can be done to increase organ donation rates. Financial compensation seemed to make sense for me because I always felt that the family that so selfishly offered the greatest gift to my father should have benefited in some way. As I have looked at this idea more closely I can see that besides the moral dilemma it offers, there are several other issues that are of concern. My research has taken a new approach of deciding all different ways that need to be considered when it comes to increasing organ donation.