Plan calls for free funerals for organ donors, but would it work?

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (UK-based) thinks that free funerals will solve the reason for organ shortages. This plan would only work if you are near death. If you are still alive and healthy, then you do not qualify. Author of the article Keith Rigg says that the free funeral idea would not benefit the donor, but it can help their surviving family in a difficult time. There are 18 million people registered donors in the UK, but only about a 1,000 actually donate - mostly because few die, allowing their organs to be donated. Not all ethicists think that this plan will work though. Dr. Art Caplan (director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania) believes it is an "odd reward" and "It reminds people of how they get to be an organ donor and may make them nervous." Dr. Robert Gatson (president of the American Society of Transplantation) says that it is "insightful" but does not know exactly if that means it would work in the US. He brought up the Organ Transplant Act of 1984 and that this law would have to be changed in order for this to work. "A lot of people who support the altruistic system say any encouragement is unethical," Gaston said. "Our society would support new ways that would preserve the integrity of the donor and the donor family."

Do you think that is it okay to persuade or bribe people into giving an organ? Why or why not?