Organ Donation Interpersonal relationship

Today we are in great need of a solution to solve the problem of the shortage of human organs available for transplant. The website for Donate Life America estimates that in the United States over 100 people per day are added to the current list of over 100,000 men, women, and children that are waiting for life-saving transplants. Sadly enough, approximately 18 people a day on that list die just because they cannot outlive the wait for the organ that they so desperately need to survive. James Burdick, director of the Division of Transplantation for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services confirms, “The need for organ transplants continues to grow and this demand continues to outpace the supply of transplantable organs”. The

There are a lot of different things that are going on in this world today that keep people from doing right by God. People need to know that the selling of the organs can make things worst in the country that can cause lots of problem for people who do not have the money to pay the price for organs. It comes a time that if someone needs an organ real bad to help save their life and do not have the money to pay for the organ, what will happen then. There would be people who would like for people to be able to just donate organs so they can help save lives in our country without looking for something in return. People can make a lot of different in our children life if they see that we as adults are doing something positive in the world makes them want to follow in our footsteps and love and care for everyone knows matter what the situation is looking like. People feel that if the selling of the organs would become legal to do, the only people who would be able to afford to buy organs would be the ones who has lots of money and want miss a dime when buying organs. “Being able to pay for an organ, would give an unfair disadvantage to those who may need the transplant more urgently but don’t have the money to offer. Being that there is limited number of organs from dying patients, and limited organs that can be donated from living patients.” (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid)

In a world where life expectancy has increased tremendously over the last century because of new technology and medical procedures, we find humanity ever pushing the boundaries on what it can do to prevent loss of life where possible. One example is the area of organ donation and transplantation. However, unlike many other technologies or procedures which can be built, manufactured, or learned, organ transplantation requires one thing that we can’t create yet: an organ itself. Because our increased life span causes more people to require a replacement organ when theirs starts to fail, the demand has far outrun the supply and the future only looks to get worse. “Between the years 1988 and 2006 the number of transplants doubled, but the

In the article, Perception About Organ Donation Among African American, Hispanic, and White High School Students, was focused on a study which used the Health Belief Model to better understand how aware African Americans, Hispanic, and White high school students are about organ donation. The main population of the study conducted was 18-year-old students.

Organ donation is a very complex and sensitive subject. Throughout my research, there are some advantages and disadvantages about organ donation, but in the end there were more disadvantages and I believe I agree with some of them. A mass number of the people support organ donation, but only a small percent are definite registered donors. According to organdonor.org, each day and average of 79 people receive organ transplant is larger than the number of organ donors. “In fact, every 10 minutes a person is added to the National Waiting List but thousands of people aren’t so lucky. 5.”In the U.S., 21 people die everyday waiting for an organ transplant”. About 45% of American adults are registered organ donors, it varies widely by state. In New

As organs continue to fail in the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people, the demand for them has increased, while the ability to easily acquire them has decreased. Many men, women and children are struggling to live due to an unhealthy organ that resides in them, so the demand for a replacement organ becomes critical. With a lack of people willing to donate their organs, individuals will soon be getting compensated to do so, which will increase the willingness of people to donate, giving those in need the chance to live. Even the families of the deceased will be compensated if any part of their body was donated. In addition to the increase of donations, organs will soon be grown from the stem cells of a patient, as well as be printed from a three-dimensional bioprinter.

A girl named Ali was born with a liver defect called Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis. It wasn’t until she was nine that she was actually diagnosed and the prognosis was clear-- Ali’s disease would get progressively worse and she would die without a liver transplant. After a six-month wait and one false alarm, they got the call. A thirteen year-old girl had died and the liver was a match for Ali. The transplant was a success and the results almost instantaneously. “When I woke I remembered immediately noticing that my skin and eyes were no longer yellow, and I didn’t itch at all. It was amazing,” says Ali. Today, Ali is a healthy twenty year-old junior college student double majoring in art and geography (How Ali Received A New Liver). Ali’s story was only 1 in 116,000 other patient transplant stories. Ali had to wait six months to receive her much needed organ because there is an organ shortage occurring and the only way to stop the shortage is to increase the number of organ donors, living or deceased. A few ways to increase the amount of organ donors is to financially compensate the organ donor or the organ donor’s family for funerals, offer Medicare coverage, and reimburse the donor of cost during the donation process.

The United States government website organdonor.gov gives information on the organ donation and transplantation. According to the website, there is an increase in demand than supply of organs for donation. Organs donated include kidney, liver, heart, pancreases, bone marrow, bones, and skins. Typically, most donations occur after the death of a person. However, a living donor can donate organs such as the kidney, part of lungs, fraction of intestines or component of the liver. As per the government website, statistics show more than 116,000 people await transplants as per August 2017 (Services). Of this number, at least 20 people die daily awaiting transplants. What is disheartening is, for every ten minutes, there is an addition of one person to the waiting list. Nevertheless, of the 95% United States adults supporting organ donation, only 54% of these adults signed up as donors. The improvement of this percentage is through changing the moral perception on organ donation and introduction of compensation to donors. To illustrate the financial incentive issues and ethics involvement as far as organ donation is concerned, the paper will be divided into two. The first section will dwell on the monetary aspect surrounding organ donation. The second segment entails the moral question on organ donation and the conclusion.

Paid organ donation is an emotive subject in the transplant community. Part of the reason for this is that in many countries, including the UK, the notion of organ donation as a ‘gift’ is highly valued. The difference between a gift and a commodity is clearly understood and applies equally to living as well as deceased organ donation. In the UK, legislation prohibits commercial dealings in human material for transplantation (Human Tissue act 2004 (England and Northern Ireland)1 and 2006 (Scotland)2).

As of 2015 there was 122071 people on the waiting list for a life saving organ transplant. This number increases each year; again in 2015 only 30,973 transplants occurred for the 122,071 people waiting (Organ Donor). Misconceptions surrounding the donation of organs can lead many people to chose to not donate both after they die and while they are alive.

Thousands of people receive organ transplants, but has it ever occurred to anyone to worry about the outcome for the person who is donating? Not only do the people that wait for organs struggle, but also living donors. Many people voluntarily give their organs without the need of money; however, they struggle with the fact that they are left to care for themselves and knowingly put their own lives at risk. Living organ donors should be reimbursed for their donations because it would help pay for their financial needs from surgery, increase the number of patients who actually receive transplants, and encourage others to donate as well.

Have you ever thought about all the lives organ donors have saved? Maybe stopped to think about how families helped and friendships made through the act of receiving an organ in a crucial time? Thousands of people are currently waiting on organ donor registries. However, the number of donors is nowhere near equal to the number of organs needed. Organ donors should be compensated for their donation, because compensation would increase the quantity of available organs, decrease black market sales, and help grieving families with funeral costs.

If everyone became organ donors then it would not take so long for people who are on the transplant list to receive a good vital organ. If just a few people would sign up to become organ donors they could save so many men, women and children who are suffering from organ failure.

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.

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.