Should Organ Donation Be Sold On The Open Market

Organ donation is a very controversial issue in many aspects. A simple solution to many of these problem is legalizing the selling of organs and allowed for it to be an open market. This could make a change on how many people receive organs since there will be more availability. Selling organ donation will help both parties the recipient and the donors family. Getting paid for donations will be an incentive for people and it can be used as a persuasive method to convince people to become organ donors

many as 100,000 people could be saved annually by introducing a regulated kidney market” (Clark np). Theoretically, this means that almost every individual on the national transplant waiting list could be saved in less than a year. A well-regulated, legal organ market is the solution to the shortage of organ supply. Most experts say $50,000 would be enough compensation for an organ (Kline np). The open organ market would be operated by the government (Kline np). The government would regulate the

Karra Bryant ENG 1020-011 Mrs. Shiner-Swanson Final Research Paper The Sale of Human Organs In the US recently the issue of human organ trafficking has become a bigger and bigger problem. When people hear that human organs are being bought and sold on the black market, they think that kind of thing only happens in third world countries, but it is quickly becoming one of America's biggest issues. People spend years of their lives on the transplant list waiting for a life saving operation,

for an organ donation. That is six people every hour, 144 every day, and 1008 every week. Approximately 120 thousand people need an organ transplant to survive. Of all of those people, only 79 thousand people are on an active wait list, while only 20 thousand transplantations have been completed this year. There are not enough donors to meet the current organ demand, and of those that do donate organs, the costs incurred by the donor do not equal the benefits. The current organ donation system operates

children in need of life-saving organ transplants, every 10 minutes another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list and averages of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs. (donatelife.net) Organ transplants are very important because they replace the damaged organ and help the body function once again. There are still huge shortages of organs, even after awareness and other ways of educating the public. Some Americans are open to donating but many more are against

The organ trade, it benefits the people of the world more than they are truly willing to admit. Although many people believe that the organ trade is truly diabolical, most people do not think about the lives saved each year by the trade. For some, the difference between life and death is the black market organ trade. Many people are also in need of money, but they have no way to legally acquire that money. If this were to be legalized, people could be compensated for the donation of their organs by

aspects regarding organ transplants. This Act was last amended in 1989. Since then medical science has developed so big in size and to such an extent that organ transplants today are almost routine operations in many hospitals. Unfortunately the current methods of procuring human organs are not supplying the demand. A new approach, the commercialization of human organs for transplantation is a possibility with the potential to supply one hundred per cent of the demand for organs. There are however

for an organ transplant. Of the over 100,000 people on this list it is estimated that 18 people die each day due to the lack of available organs (American Transplant Foundation, 2014) What if these lives could be saved and the number of available organs for transplant could be increased exponentially? Does it make moral, financial, or ethical sense to bury or incinerate perfectly viable organs that could be used to save the lives others? The purpose of this paper is to argue that organ donation

willing to sell an organ for money and the best place to do that is on the black market. There are many who turn to selling of an organ because they have no other option for money, however what happens to the individuals afterwards is terrible. By the United States making sale of organs legal there would be less reason for one to sell their organs on the black market, individuals could receive the proper care they need, and there would be less of a chance that organs that are sold would be effected

future. Transplanting an organ from one human to another has become a modern, medical miracle. Yet, with a shortage of organs and a surplus of poverty-stricken, the world has resulted to black market trading. Where it once took years of waiting on an organ wait list to receive that needed body part, it can now take just a few weeks or months to purchase a new life. The need for organs, especially in the United States, has procured an increase in organ trafficking and black market dealings, especially