Should Estates Be Permitted to Sell Decedents’ Body Parts, With Proceeds to Heirs or Beneficiaries?

Professor Reid Weisbord at Rutgers Law School – Newark has a new essay that takes on a challenging, two-part question: Whether a donor’s estate should be permitted to sell a decedent’s body parts or organs posthumously and whether the proceeds of such sales will be distributed to the donor’s heirs or beneficiaries.  Professor Reid suggests an appropriate starting place is to define and provide for “anatomical intent” of the donor.  Before you start imagining vendors on Craigslist or at Sothebys, be advised the essay anticipates a regulated system.

You probably want to read more about this topic, correct?  See “Anatomical Intent” by Reed Weisbord from the November issue of Yale Law Review Forum.