ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has ended with a personal tragedy which, like personal tragedies in others' lives provides a well of experience from which to draw. Organ donation is enabled within close ethical boundaries, with privacy, dignity, and consent negotiated all the way. It is not the donor, in the end, who has to carry the experience of this act of generosity. It is the next of kin who carry the consequences of honouring this commitment. It is they who have to support such a bequest and they who will receive the profound consolation of knowing that others have been helped by the donor's last wish. Organ donation provides literal evidence for the possibility that we can become responsible in relation to each other, that parts of us can exist in the very otherness of strangers at a bodily, emotional, and social level.
