Organ Gift

Kishore begins his paper by discussing the high demands for organ donation. By doing this Kishore illustrates that donation through waiting lists and from deceased individuals does not fill the needs of our population, resulting in around 17 people per day dying while waiting for a transplant. Kishore then discusses organs acquired through donation, which is widely regarded as an altruistic process. However, Kishore demies this notion by stating that donation of organs is not as altruistic as it seems. When someone donates their organ it does not go to the person more in need or most deserving but typically to someone known by the donor, to fulfill their own desire to not loose that person. Kishore even challenges anonymous donation stating that it is typically motivated by an attempt to satisfy one’s own needs, all donation is tainted by one’s own desires and are not truly altruistic. For Kishore these conventional methods of acquiring organs accept the idea that a recipient may benefit at the expense of another and that a donor may forfeit their bodily integrity. By accepting these two ideas, Kishore believes that selling organs should therefore be

Today in the United States there are thousands of people currently waiting for some type of transplant. If one were to ask a group of people if they have friends or family who have either had a transplant or are waiting for one, one would find that most people know at least one person who has had a transplant or is waiting for one. Transplantation is a great advance in modern medicine. The need for organ donors is much larger than the number of people who sign up to donate their organs in the case of an accident. According to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1995-2009), "Every day in the United States 17 people die waiting for an organ and more than 80,000 men, women, and children await life-saving organ

D. Thesis - Organ donation and Transplants are the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. They give hope to

With the rapid development of science and technology, When people's organs fail, doctors will use organ transplants to replace end-stage organ failure with special treatment to help patients get rid of death. Typically，some countries use organ donation to help people to get a healthy body. However, according to the article written by Mark J. Cherry, “The shortage of organs is virtually a universal problem.” (Cherry, 2005) . Hence, a small number of human organs donations cannot meet the growing demand and a phenomenon that leads to the sale and sale of organs in society. Furthermore, Cherry said that “the purchase and sale of transplant organs from live donors are prohibited in many countries.” (Cherry, 2005). There are three main reasons the

Organ Donation and Transplantation continues to be an important controversial issue in healthcare ethics. The ethical principles in allocation of human organs in a pluralistic society with conflicting ideas are norms that are meant optimal for matters of a public policy, where individuals in such a society hold various conflicting, yet a reasonable position on organ allocation. Three principals have gained primary importance in allocating organs for transplantation: utility, justice and autonomy. (http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov).

Becoming a living organ donor helps to increase the amount of organs that can be supplied to those who are in need of them. A living organ donor can be distinguished into one of three groups: they are involved in a direct donation, giving their organs to someone they choose such as a family member or a friend; they can be involved in a non-directed donation in which they give their organ to a national pool and it will be transplanted into a patient who is at the top of the waiting list; or a living donor can be involved with a directed donation to a stranger and in this case, the donor chooses to donate their organ to a specified person who they do not have any emotional connection with. (Truog, Robert D). Many ethical questions come into

In 1967, the world’s first heart transplant was performed (Ehtuish, N.D). With this heart only lasting in the patient for a total of 2 ½ weeks, scientists knew that that they were on the brink of being able to provide a permanent, sustainable heart to a medically unstable patient. In the 21st century, heart transplantation is now considered to be a modern miracle; being able to remove a heart from a no longer living person and transplant it into the body of someone whose heart no longer functions properly. In Australia, “around 1600 people are on organ transplant waiting lists (for an average of) 6 months to 4 years” (Organ Donation & Transplant Foundation of WA, 2011). Each year, there is an increasing amount of people dying whilst on these waiting lists due to the large demand

The world has been around for a long time and never has there been a need for organ donation as there is now. When a person’s organ is failing from disease, they are placed on the transplant list. An organ transplant is define as one organ is taken from a donor and put in a recipient’s body to replace the diseased organ. Organ transplantation is a life-giving gift to a dying person. In 1988, between kidneys, lungs, heart, and liver, there were 12,301 transplants performed and 15,638 organs needed (Kaserman, Table 1&2, 2007). In 2003, between those same organs, there were 23,941 performed, a total of 84,951organs were needed to fill the waiting list (Kaserman, Table 1&2, 2007), and the

The advent of the concept of organ transplantation came as an important breakthrough in the medical field, in the 20th century. Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site to another location on the person's own body, to replace the recipient's damaged or absent organ (Dhillon, Gagan.) Organ transplantation is also a major surgery that carries potential risks and drawbacks. Which is why others disagree with organ transplantation. But this major operation has positive outcomes. Organ transplant has been hailed as one of the greatest achievements of modern society by providing a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs. There are however,

As a young, Muslim having been born and bred in the 21ᔆᵗ century, it has recently sparked my attention that there has been a substantial debate with many Ulama’ about harm and benefits of organ transplant. In the light of this topic, we must first understand what organ transplant is “the process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person (the organ donor) and placing it into another person (the recipient)” (Organ Donor, 2016). With the mass uprising of diseases in the world, many lives and limbs of loved ones have been lost or amputated due to these diseases such as, cancer, Zika virus, Buerger’s disease, septicaemia, etc. The discovery of organ transplant has not only benefitted the health of the donor and donee, but also society

Death is not a pleasant thought to the everyday person, even though it is a simple fact of life. For some it is a welcome event that can alleviate suffering and pain and in the end save the life of another. The simple decision of becoming an organ donor can save lives and improve the quality of life of the recipient. When an individual is in need of an organ transplant, it is typically known that they are in need of an organ that facilitates a restoration of physiological functioning and will often mean the difference between life and death. A vast majority of individuals are apprehensive about what happens to their bodies after their death. In this paper we will go through the origins and history of organ donation, the process by which organs are donated, the ethical implications behind organ donation and discuss many of the proposed solutions to solve the organ shortage issue.

“Organ donation is the surgical process of providing one or more organs to be used for transplantation into another person. Organ donors can be deceased or living” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016, p. 1). The very first successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant performed in 1954. By the late 1960’s they were successfully transplanting livers, hearts and pancreases. Lung and intestinal transplants came shortly after in the 1980’s. At this very second 121,574 people are waiting for an organ and every day 22 people will die while they wait. A single organ donor can save up to 8 lives (HRSA, 2016).

Thousands of people face organ failure and life threatening diseases that would lead to the need for an organ transplant but the number of available organs is far below the overwhelming demand. This problem only increases every day as more people are added to the only available organ donation list-UNOS. Thus some controversy is bound to arise with thousands of victims suffering and waiting every day. Even though worldwide demand for organs would create a booming market, the sale of organs should not be encouraged because it would further the gap between social classes and increase crime in poor areas.

Have you ever thought about how many people die every day? Have you ever thought about how they die and why? Most of the people would answer that they do not think about it, not because they are selfish just because this is a normal process someone dies other are born in the same day. True. Every day in USA dies around 7000 persons according to the United Nations Statistics Division. What if I will say that almost a ¼ of them die because of the lack of donor organs? Still don’t care? What if among all the persons there is someone whom you know? I suppose now you care. I will introduce you the myths about organ donation, real facts and solutions.

Kanniyakonil, S. (2005). Living organ donation and transplantation: A medical, legal, and moral theological appraisal. Kottayam: Oriental Institute of Religious Studies India.