Essay about Organ Transplants for Prisoners

Money is an issue death penalty activists rarely account for. The differences in price fall on the taxpayers shoulders. Because of numerous appeals, the total money spent on each death penalty case is different. When examining the death penalty as a whole, however, it is important to identify that not all costs are monetary. In addition to losing tax payers’ money for appeals that almost always fail, the drug cocktails themselves do not consistently achieve desired result. Several death row inmates have gone as far as to sue the state for a violation of their 8th Amendment rights. Due to this controversy, states have had increasing trouble accessing barbiturates for their “drug cocktail.” Indiana is no different. The escalating difficulties in the process of obtaining these drugs from overseas harm our foreign relations -- especially with European allies. The arduous process of importing barbiturates only increases the price of executions and the chance of a “cruel and unusual” punishment occurring.

In this research paper, I will further elaborate on the ethics involving habitual criminal offenders in whether or not they should eligible to receive a life-saving organ transplant. Google defines habitual criminal offenders as people who were convicted of a new crime and was previously convicted of a crime(s). In a multitude of US states, there are the habitual offender laws in place to discourage such happenings, but it still happens and as of 2016, there are roughly 1.6 million people in federal and state prisons, a good percentage habitual. Then, there is the aging population in prison in need of care as denying them of such violates the 8th Amendment as cruel and unusual punishment and there are also a number of prisoners in need of

The United Network for Organs will then begin to look at the patient psychosocial history. Many people believe that if someone is in prisoner and have a sentence to serve that they should be disqualified from receiving a heart transplant. People believe this because they think that the organs should go to someone who is not receiving jail time. However, by not letting someone who is in prison receive an organ because they are facing jail time falls under “Cruel and unusual punishment”.(Camron, 2008) The act of 1984 made it to where it law that organ must be distrubted fairly. The law that protect patient is the National organ transplant act. (Camron, 2008). This law protct patient from being looked over for a heart simple because they are

The U.S Congress passed The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, to fix the national organ donation shortage and improve the organ donation process. The act has since established the Organ and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to maintain a national registry for organ matching. In the United States, there are around 75,000 people on the active waiting list for organs, with only about 8,000 decreased donors each year (CDC, 2017). Thus, living donors are extremely important and provide around 6,000 organs each year (CDC, 2017). A maximum-security prison works in collaboration with an academic medical center to give monetary incentive and parole incentives to prisoners if they donate organs and blood. For the academic medical center the prison is a great resource to increase organ donations, and for the prison to teach inmates good deeds. However, monetary incentives for prisons is unethical and a problem from a legal standpoint.

Christmas is just around the corner. I 'm sure growing up there was a toy that you just had to have. How did you feel having to wait until Christmas morning to see if you got that toy? You might have felt anxious or hopeful. Well, that is exactly how the thousands of people who are on the national waiting list for organ transplants feel every minute of every day. However, instead of waiting for a toy, they are waiting for something they literally cannot live without. I am a registered donor and know people who have had organ transplants. There is a continuously increasing need for organ donors, and it is easy to become an organ donor. Today, I hope to persuade you all to become registered donors by explaining the need for more donors, what you can donate, and how you can become a donor.

Do societies most dangerous deserve prior health care? It is debatable if prisoners should be placed on organs transplant waiting list or not. Prison officials in several states are mulling over two sides of the coin with respect to organ transplants for prisoners: First, the eligibility and cost of such medical procedure, and second whether prisoners should be allowed to donate their organs. Organ scarcity and the pressure to ensure that each organ is utilized to the best of its capability have led to the dominant question of whether social status, such of prisoners, is a criterion on the allocation of organs waiting list. Because the numbers of individuals placed on the waiting list is increasing constantly while there is a continued scarcity of organs, our society has the task of deciding who should be eligible to receive organ transplants. Currently according to the United Sharing Network, there are 122,638 people waiting for a lifesaving transplant. Every ten minutes, someone is added to the national transplant waiting list. On average, 22 people die each day while waiting for a transplant. One organ donor can save up to eight lives.

You are sitting in a hospital bed for the fifth time this week. The doctor gives you many medications to help the pain you feel in your heart. You are constantly reminded that your heart has many defects, and soon realize that you need a new one. To the right if you, there is a device the size of a washing machine with two tubes that are connecting to your chest so that your heart can still pump blood. You feel so fatigued, almost as if you cannot breathe. You find it terrifying to think that your life depends on the next available organ donor in your area. You begin to lose hope every day but the doctors and your family encourage you to be patient, that there will be somebody out there with a heart to give. Unfortunately this story is not

A man named Christian Longo was sentenced to death for the murder of his family (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2011, p. 308). In prison, Longo came to the conclusion of voluntarily donating his organs after death (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2011, p. 308). His appeal was rejected not by the state, but by the prison authorities because they do not believe that the public and the inmates would not be pleased with this service (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2011, p. 308-309). In the United States, there are more than 3,000 prisoners on death row and most would have healthy organs and tissues when they die (Ramage, Bean, & Johnson, 2011, p. 308). Some states use three lethal injections

Even healthy prisoners are usually unaware that all they need to maintain a healthy lifestyle is a single kidney, and feel that they could lead a normal life by only what they were born with-two kidneys. This is a fallacy, in that they can lead a normal and healthy adult life with only one kidney. In 2001, convicted murderer Christian Longo was sentenced to death row for the murders of his wife and three children. Since that fateful day and sentence, he has tried to find ways to become a useful member of society. Longo believes that by donating his useful human organs and/or tissue, as a living donor before his execution, that he, “…could clear nearly 1 percent” (Longo, 2011) of his home state of Oregon’s human organ transplant waiting list. Prisoners, many of whom are sentenced to either life in prison or death row have opted to donate their vital organs and/or tissue to the donor transplant list before either execution or after they die in prison. One of the positive drawing points for harvesting a kidney from a healthy patient and/or prisoner is, “You will likely be able to return to work 2-3 weeks after the surgery, depending on the type of work. However some donors require a longer recovery period if their work requires heavy lifting or other physical demands” (UM Medical Center,

Sometimes the only cure for someone suffering and dying is to receive a new organ. Many people wait for years for compatible organs to become available. As this is happening, the need for organ donors is growing. In order to fully understand organ donation, educating oneself is the first most important thing. It has many benefits, including the importance of how many lives could be saved and how it impacts the world in a great way. The sociological theory that is associated to why organ donation should be mandatory is structural functionalism.

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

It's obvious to tell how severe the hardship of the patient is, knowing that their fate lies in somebody else's hands and that it may not be possible to get an organ in time before their body breaks down and they pass away. However, many people don't consider the hardship that the donor must go through. Many donors have to stop what they're doing and arrange their whole schedule around, in order to go through surgery. Many even have to leave work for months in order to go through surgery, and most don't get paid while leaving. Which can leave them moneyless for months without a stable amount of income coming into their pockets. Along with this, many people have to pay for flight travels and hotel accommodations because if the donor doesn't live in a state where donating organs is common such as California, then the donor will have to spend money on making sure that they can make it to the hospital and have a place to sleep at and recover. Many of these donors also, don't have Medicaid to help them pay so they end up paying for their hospital bills which can amount to thousands of dollars. In the end, most of these donors end up financially broke from donating, this is why they should be compensated. They have to go through a lot so compensating

Transplantation of human organs have most like it similar views in different world religions. Some of the factors are same, but in some points, they completely opposite to one another. In Judaism the concept of organ donation is that it is permissible to save a life only if the donors life is not in danger. Organ donation from a living person in Judaism is allow only if the donor life is not in danger, and also it is mandatory for the community to save a human life if they have choice to do. Even though if someone have to donate an organ. In addition, the donation of human organ from a dead person is also equally permitted for the same purposes, to save the life. If the risk to donor is much less than harm to recipient, then it completely

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.

The health issue of Organ donations is becoming increasingly prominent within Australia. Organ transplantation is the act of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person, the organ donor and transferring it into another, the recipient (Cleveland clinic, 2017). Transplantations may occur due to the recipient’s organs failing or getting injured due to disease or injury. Many diseases can lead to organ failure, including heart disease, diabetes, hepatitis, cystic fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Injury and birth defects may also cause organ failure. (Organ donor, 2017). Whilst Australia is a world leader for successful transplant outcomes, around 1,600 people are on the transplant waiting list at any one time due to the lack of organ donors (Transplant Australia, 2017). In 2015 there were 1,500 waiting, 435 Organ Donors and 1,241 transplant recipients (Transplant Australia, 2017). This reveals that there is a significantly higher demand for organ donors compared to the number of donations. On average, people on the transplant list must wait between six months and four years (Transplant Australia, 2017). Due to the high demand for organ transplants, and the low number of organ donors, it can be recommended that the Australian Government removes the current family veto system that is applied as well as increasing the community awareness through advertising the in an attempt to increase donor rates.