Should Organs For Transplant Be Sold Or Donated

Should Organs for Transplant Be Sold Or Donated

Introduction

The reality is, as we all know, that we are not invincible, and someday everyone's time will come to an end. The act of organ donation is a significantly compassionate and humane choice for a person to make and give the gift of life. Organ donation is a subject that affects all of us, but it is largely misunderstood. To help clarify, here are some compelling facts about organ donation; as reported by the United Network for Organ Sharing also known as UNOS 120,699 Americans are currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant (unos.org), meaning that their lives are entirely dependent upon receiving the organ. When you consider the total number of children waiting nationally for an organ transplant, it would take more than 30 school buses to transport the more than 1,800 children who wait every day for their gift of life (Life Goes On 3). This involves subjecting healthy person such risks and suffering in order to save the life of another sick person. From the moral point of view this technique generated controversy. Overall the arguments were based on altruism, while opposing positions highlighted the emotional pressure he is under the donor (Oroy et al., 2013, pp. 202-211).

The shortage of organs for medical research directed at developing new innovative techniques (e.g., separation and reduction of the liver), which added to the already existing (renal ablation, bone marrow and pancreatic segments) to provide-a people in need of a new alternative-one live donor transplant. Thus a new ethical problem arose: the doctor, whose duty designated by the Hippocratic tradition is not damaged, proceed to the organ ablation, or segment thereof, in a healthy person (living donor). In that regard, this paper focuses on the stance of selling organs for transplantation.

Discussion

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The increasing number of persons exposed to factual information about organ donation (OD), it is vital to target specific groups within our population. Education should begin as early as possible; for instance, mandating presentations in public high schools prior to students acquiring driver's licenses could be key in attaining higher rates of OD. Thornton et al. (2012) concluded that a 5-minute video presentation designed to address ethnic groups concerns administered just prior to obtaining licenses at Ohio DMV locations increased consent to donate. Acknowledging and understanding the learning differences among individuals can lead to improving methods of educating Americans. While younger adults prefer media and Internet sources of information, older Americans seem to prefer written information (Downing & Jones, 2008). In addition to medical professionals working in transplant, healthcare workers from all areas of medicine should be educated about transplant. There are numerous opportunities where healthcare professionals could teach patients and family members about the need for increased (OD). For example, family physicians could discuss OD during yearly office visits and nurses could inquire about organ donor status during hospital admissions, which is the case with inquiries about advance directives or living ...