Can a Kidney Donor Ask for the Kidney Back After the Recipient Dies?
After a transplant recipient dies, does the donor retain any ownership claim over the donated kidney?
A high-sensitivity Torah and halakhic discussion of bodily ownership, the nature of a gift, donor intent and respect for the deceased after organ transplantation. This publication layer is based only on the canonical Hebrew mapping. It preserves the Torah framing and all review gates and does not add a practical ruling, medical conclusion, legal conclusion, or factual claim beyond the mapped source.