Organ donation is when a donor with a healthy functioning organ gives a person who has a failing organ their organ; organ donation can occur when the donor is living, but certain organs-such as a heart-requires the donor to be deceased. Organ donation is a topic that is very important because it deals with whether people live or die, and it doesn't help that the amount of recipients for organs is greater than the amount of donors. According to Brian Hansen's Organ Shortage it's stated that about 115 people are added a day to the 80,700 people who are in need of organs, and of these people only 66 people a day actually gets organs (155). This means that the amount of people waiting for organs surpass the amount of organs readily available. …show more content…
Money should not be used as an incentive because people should give with sincerity. To donate means to give something to charity. If money was being received for donating organs then it wouldn't be donating; instead one would be getting paid for there organs. I wouldn't go as far as saying donating organs it's our God-given duty (Fisanick). However, if a person is going to donate their organs to save someone else's life they should be doing it because it is what they feel is right. A person should not donate their organs just for the money they could possibly get-if they were to get money. The idea that people should give for the good should be present once they have passed also. Assuming that a donor is already deceased there would be no purpose to give the family money for the organs. The reason being that the deceased no longer have use for the organs. So knowing that the organs will be harvest once deceased when it's chosen to give organs. It should be assumed that the person is giving the organs as a gesture from the hearts and not for the money for their family. Money should not be used as an incentive because it will cause the black market to rise. By giving out money to donors it can cause anyone to come into a hospital with organs to sell. This would be bad because the donors are not screened. That could cause some background information from the donor that is need to know to be omitted. It could also cause doctors to just trust the people selling to organs
'Proponents of financial incentives for organ donation assert that a demonstration project is necessary to confirm or refute the types of concerns mentioned above. The American Medical Association, the United Network for Organ Sharing and the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons have called for pilot studies of financial incentives. Conversely, the National Kidney Foundation maintains that it would not be feasible to design a pilot project that would definitively demonstrate the efficacy of financial incentives for organ donation. Moreover, the implementation of a pilot project would have the same corrosive effect on the ethical, moral and social fabric of this country that a formal change in policy would have. Finally, a demonstration project is objectionable because it will be difficult to revert to an altruistic system once payment is initiated, even if it becomes evident that financial incentives don 't have a positive impact on organ donation. '(http://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/positionpaper03)
Deciding whether or not one would like to become an organ donor should be a relatively simple decision. But becoming a living organ donor, for someone who may need a kidney or liver, is something that is not always possible to those who do want to help. Unfortunately many people incur costs for the life-saving donation. Regardless of the fact that many other types of donors get paid for their donations. Here lies the frustration of many who are waiting years for their life saving organ. Many of which who do not receive them. If we can financially compensate individuals who donate hair, sperm, eggs and even become gestation surrogates, than there must be a way to financially reward live solid organ donators.
Organ donation is a life-changing event for not only those receiving the transplant but also for the families of the donor. It gives a meaning to the end of someone’s life. The act of donating organs impacts many individuals even after the donor passed away. Everyone should consider being an organ donor because it is simple to become one, and the need is constantly growing.
All throughout the United States, many people deal with failures. Some happen in society, some happen within a household or family, but some happen within in one’s body. Organ donation is a procedure where a donor donates a specific organ to a recipient. The donor giving the recipient an organ can either be living or deceased. According to Livescience, “the number of people on the waiting list has soared upward increasing from 31,000 in 1993 to 101,000 in 2008.” “The success rate for organ transplantation is between eighty and ninety percent”(LiveOnNY). Knowing these statistics, organ donors must be paid for their donation because it can get more people off the waiting list, money could increase the number of living donors, helps the
Many people believe that they should be rewarded for saving another person's life by donating an organ for them, claiming that they had a choice, so they should be praised for making the right decision to give it away! Well, if that's true, then we should be rewarded for picking up garbage that we dropped, or washing our hands after we use the restroom. People aren’t ordinarily rewarded, or praised, for something we are already expected to do. But, that is what is expected to happen when donating organs. Organ donation is the process of removing tissues along with organs from a human body for the purposes of transplanting. In many countries, the patients in need of organs have to pay the donor for the organ. The sale of human organs should
Organ Donation has been available for many years and is one of the most dominant treatments for numerous chronic diseases. In Australia many organ transplants are successfully completed every day and is a world leader in transplant outcomes, the number of operations is has shown steady increase over the past few years however there are still not enough organs to compensate the need of ill patients, in fact over 1600 people are currently on the waiting list (Donate life, 2015).There are many myths surrounding the topic of organ and tissue donation and although many are not true they cloud the judgements of many people who are willing to donate; “Doctors will not try hard to save a person if they are a donor” (Mayoclinic, 2015)and
One ethical issue is using the money to attract more organ donations. Such as paying families a particular amount to go towards deceased donor funeral expenses or paying living donors for travel and living expenses. There are also federal government incentives for their employee who wish to be a living donor. These employees get 30 days pay time off for an organ and seven days for tissue such as bone marrow. It has also been suggested that living donor gets free medical insurance or tax break and if a foreign donor that this person gets US citizenship. Another ethical issue is the sale of organs through international trade by developing nations. This is when the poor sell their healthy organ to those who could afford it, the wealthy. Some believe
At this very moment there are 116,000 U.S. adults and children waiting for an organ donation and every ten minutes another person is added to the waiting list. Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation to another person. Everyone should be an organ donor if you are able to because one donor can save eight lives, and the gift of life is the best gift you can give ("Organ Donation Statistics").
Just one donor can save the lives of eight people and change the lives of more than fifty people. The need for organ transplants continues to exceed the supply of organs which is resulting in the current organ shortage. An estimated 170,000 patients in the U.S. are on waiting list for transplants. With such a large waiting list, a large number of patients have set out to recruit their own donors; whether it is through a website or an underground market. The U.S. banned organ sales two decades ago resulting in the underground sale of organs. People have discovered the value of their own organs and have been taking advantage of it. For example, there has been a case where a South Korean man used his kidney as collateral for a loan. With such a large need for organs; the government needs to think of a method to attract more organ donors. One of the major suggestion is to financially compensate organ donors as an incentive to entice more people to donate; whether it is a living
More than thirty-thousand organ transplants are performed every year in the United States, however many more individuals are in need of transplants. Without a supply of organs to be donated most individuals unfortunately pass away, or turn to the black market organ sales. How could the United States boost the number of available organs, while decreasing the activity of illegal organ sales? A national system could be implied to boost, reimburse, and make organ donning more acceptable to those who consider donating. Organ donors could be financially compensated for their financial burden of donating an organ such as hospital bills, rehabilitation and, days of missed work. This in turn would increase the number of available organs, while the need for black market organ sales would plummet.
Organ donation started out as simply “donation” or the act by which a person voluntarily transfers the title of their organ to someone in need. Paid organ donation is an emotive subject in the transplant community. Paying people to donate their organs, specifically kidneys, is one of the most contentious moral issues debated. Obtaining health issues, for example, kidney disease, is an undeniable component when talking about the existence of life in general. Receiving a kidney is a greatly long and troublesome process, and the probability of the patient getting one is vastly uncommon in light of the fact that an insufficient number of individuals will not progress toward becoming donors, and the supply of organs is diminishing. The question being asked is, should people donate their organs just to show their kindness, or should the they be monetarily compensated for their donations? Certainly, being paid for self-given donations is the most superb method of giving organs to those who are ill. When a kidney transplant enables an organ recipient to enjoy a longer life with family members, he or she does not begrudge the donor receiving compensation; the happiness of the recipient could enable the donor to enjoy a better life as well. The process of organ donation would be effortless with the help of compensation; the process is likely to show an increase in organ supply, decrease in death rates, and could potentially decrease the amount of misery patients are experiencing while
According to the Gary S. Becker and Julio J. Elias, kidney transplants are the most common type of transplants. Becker and Elias’s article goes on to say, “In 2012, 95,000 American men, women, and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ. Yet only about 16,500 kidney transplant operations were performed that year.” (Becker and Elias 222) 78,500 people did not receive a surgical operation with the wait for a transplant is averaged at about 4.5 years. The waiting list is flooding rapidly with more people seeking medical attention. Ultimately, if people were compensated for organ donations, the donors could save lives, help themselves, and they could increase the supply of needed organs.
When a person decides to donate their organs, it should not be taboo to expect some form of payment in return. Every year, the number of people who need an organ transplant grows and are added to the national transplant waiting list, monitored by UNOS. As of November 2017, more than 100,000 people needed an organ transplant that would save their life (UNOS, 2017). Unfortunately, organs for these individuals aren’t as readily available as they would have hoped. As many as 20 men, women, and children die every day waiting for an organ (UNOS, 2017). This number would not be as high if there were more people who were willing to donate their organs to those who were in need, but “people just don’t seem
Organ donation can be a beautiful gesture, but not necessarily for everyone involved. For the recipient of an organ, his or her body can function easier now. However, the same cannot be said for organ donors, who are limited due to the unequal trade for an organ and nothing. In fact, the number of organ donors decreases annually. Organ donors pay a huge price, so it is only fair that they should receive payment for what they do because they undergo difficult procedures, suffer physical consequences later in life, and most of them cannot afford the procedures needed to help them heal.
More than thirty-thousand organ transplants are performed every year in the United States, however many more individuals are in need of transplants. Without a supply of organs to be donated most individuals unfortunately pass away, or turn to the black market organ sales. How could the United States boost the number of available organs, while decreasing the activity of illegal organ sales? A national system could be employed to boost, reimburse, and make organ donning more acceptable to those who consider donating. Organ donors could be financially compensated for their financial burden of donating an organ such as hospital bills, rehabilitation and, days of missed work. This in turn would increase the number of available organs, while the need for black market organ sales would plummet.