Table 3 Specific attitudes to donation elicited in Barbados survey (N = 327)

Is important to me that I could give someone else a chance of life after my death.

95

4

1

4

Donating your organs when you die is a good thing to do.

89

7

5

7

I wouldn't mind who received my kidney after my death.

88

12

1

12

Do not have a problem with my body being cut up after my death.

85

11

3

11

Am not confident that medical teams would try as hard to save the life of a person who has agreed to donate organs.

43

43

14

43

I worry that if I donate my organs for transplant they might be used without my consent for other purposes like medical research.

29

65

6

29

Am concerned that an intact body with no parts removed is needed for the life hereafter.

7

89

4

7

Organ donation is unacceptable because of my religious beliefs.

12

86

2

12

Feel that agreeing when alive to donating kidneys as a gift after death is like tempting death.

9

89

3

9