LIVING DONORS

Compensating Living Donors

Compensating Living Donors

Introduction

The world has progressively moved towards technology oriented procedures in every field. With the passage of time, the use of technology in the field of medicine has also increased. As the number is increasing for medical implications, the use of technology is important. The major technological need of current medical procedures is the organ transplantation. The organs that are being donated from dead donors have no problems, whereas, the organs being donated by the living donors have been an issue for governments and medical associations. The thesis statement for this paper would be the ethical considerations and consequences related to compensation for the living donors.

Discussion

The demand for living donors far exceeds the departed donors. The reason being, that the wait for a donor to die and donate an organ is much problematic for patients. Hence, they ask their relatives and friends who are willing to donate organs to help the patient. Organ transplantation through a living donor certainly saves lives, improves the transplantation results, and reduces the organ's waiting time by a patient. Moreover, the phenomenon increases the chances for patients without living donors to get organs from the deceased donors (Gruessner & Benedetti, 2008).

The donation of organs from the living donors creates ethical implications to be addressed. It contradicts the medical norms and certain traditional rules of medicine. For instance, 'do no harm' is the major rule that revolves around the medical practices throughout the globe. In order to get an organ from a living donor, a patient becomes a cause to transform a healthy person into a patient. The fundamental question arise at this point is whether a living donor should be compensated for a donation or not. Compensating or remunerating the living donors have pros and cons associated with it. They deal with ...