Free Market for Organs

Introduction

Two opposing views of the human body have lived since time began. Can it be traded or does its worth proceed beyond a monetary one? Today it is illegal to deal body parts but the success of organ transplantation has give rise to an enormous controversy. The continued boost in the need for body parts has lead to a foremost use of live donors. Accordingly, clandestine selling of organs is fetching more extensive for two main reasons: scientific progress and market demand. Our aim was to believe the shield of ethical principles through legislation.

Discussion

Under present arrangements, a doctor informs the family of the death of their loved one and asks if they will allow him to harvest the organs in almost the same breath. When a family has just learned their loved one has passed away, the last thing they want to think about is people cutting them open and removing various body parts. This situation may supply dramatic plots for hospital shows such as ER and Chicago Hope- this might well be the only virtue of extant law--but in terms of saving the lives of desperate patients, it is an abysmal failure. Consider the following situation: The daughter of a very wealthy man is found to have a malfunctioning kidney (Appel, 14).

There is a long waiting list of people in need of kidneys, and this child is placed at the end of the queue. The girl's father places an advertisement in the newspaper as well as on the internet offering $100,000 to whoever can deliver a compatible kidney to them the fastest. Is it wrong for the father to offer money for an organ? Many people would object, because this would put his daughter ahead of those who have been waiting for a transplant for a long time. When we wreck our automobiles, we do not drive them off a cliff or bury them because they are no longer of use to us; we parcel them out (salvage them), we restore life to other automobiles by providing parts which will allow them to last longer.

Yet thousands of people die each year of natural causes with perfectly good "salvageable" organs; and thousands of other people die each year because one of their "parts" are broken and are in desperate need of another one to replace it. A person does not need his organs after death. These internal ...