In 1984 to streamline organ donation the legislation called the Transplantation of Human Act was passed in India. The act accepeted Brain death as a form of death and made the sales of organs a punishable offense. To overcome organ shortage, developed countries are re-looking at the ethics of unrelated programs and there seems to be a move towards making this an acceptable legal alternative. Both state and legislature have been put in in place to provide the safest and most equitable system for distribution of donated organs. Dramatic developments in organ and tissue transplantation have allowed persons with life-threatening illnesses a chance to live. Most people are organ donors meaning that when they pass they choose to donate their
