The Benefits Of Organ Donation

The demand for organ donors far exceeds the supply of available organs. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) … there are more than 77,000 people in the U.S. who are waiting to receive an organ (Organ Selling 1). The article goes on to say that the majority of those on the national organ transplant waiting list are in need of kidneys, an overwhelming 50,000 people. Although financial gain in the U.S and in most countries is illegal, by legalizing and structuring a scale for organ donor monetary payment, the shortage of available donors could be reduced. Legalizing this controversial issue will help with the projected forecast for a decrease in the number of people on the waiting list, the ethical concerns around benefitting from organ donation, and to include compensation for the organ donor.

Dying painfully in a hospital bed is not the way anyone wants to go. Unfortunately for many people, it is a reality. Thousands of people a year end up dying while waiting for an organ that could save their lives. While on the other side of the world, thousands of people die a year, but from infection when an organ is forcefully taken from them to sell on the black market. There are two sides of the organ donation list, and both can end in death. This paper will discuss the shortage of donated organs and the issues with the current donation system. It will also discuss the black market for transplant organs and possible solutions to viable organ shortage. The focus of this paper will be on transplant kidneys as they are the most desirable organ for buyers and sellers.

The lack of organs in a transplant centers is a reality that affects patients in need of a transplant. Not having enough organs has made patients wait for years and in worst case scenarios patients die while waiting for a transplant. For Hajikarimi, a 52-year-old Iranian mother of two who’s kidney failed has a possibility of having a transplant done within a year. Thankfully in Iran, organ sales are legal and their system safeguard itself against the black market by handling transactions through nonprofit groups for all arrangements regarding organ sales. Hajikarimi chances of life are higher than an American mother of two going through the same unfortunate situation. The organ shortage is making patients and their families take alternate route

Beep beep beep. That's the sound you listen to as the monitor beeps in your ICU room, while you lay in the bed for days on end waiting for a new organ. This is the everyday life of many people who need an organ transplant. Organ donation is an option that you have to take. Organ donation should be encouraged for multiple reasons, but to name a few are one, because there are many people waiting on the UNOS list, two, because organ donation can save so many lives, and three, because it's simple to become one.

Unfortunately, despite these wonderful advances, people who need an organ often have an incredibly difficult time getting one, and only have word of doctors that they will even get on at all. Part of the problem is all of the restrictions placed on donations to make them ethical make it very easy for America’s more criminally minded citizens to make a profit on human tissue (Carney). The system of donating blood, organs, and bones anonymously is not perfect. There is still a desperate need for these commodities, and even though people cannot pay for their donated tissue, they do still pay in the long run. After all, medical services are by no means free, or even cheap. In

The crisis surrounding the shortages of transplant organs are not in dispute. In 1988, there were fewer than 14,000 patients waiting for a kidney transplant and about 7,000 deceased-donor kidneys. Today, the waiting list has grown more than five times that amount but the number of deceased-donor kidneys has barely changed. The demands for organs are considerably much higher than the supply (Meckler, 2007). At this moment, there are more than 105,000 people in the U.S. alone that are currently on the organ donation waiting list, and more than 6,500 of these people, or about eighteen per day, will die before an organ becomes available to them through donation. (Dale Archer, 2013). There have always been more people in need of a transplant, than those willing to donate. This shortage of

Unfortunately, there are more ill individuals in the world than there are donated organs to give them a second chance at life. Human nature is to live and enjoy life; unfortunately, the failure of an organ can have catastrophic effects that lead to death. Organ failure can strike anyone, regardless of where that person may be located on a map and at any point throughout history. Its’ effects are prevalent in today’s society, more so than it has ever been before as humanity is struggling against the ongoing effects with greater numbers now. Due to the lack of available organs to replaced damaged or diseased ones, people turn towards unethical means of obtaining organs and desperately search for unorthodox solutions. There is no other option

“When transplant activists talk about an organ shortage, it’s usually to lament how few people are willing to donate” (Kahn 340). Organ donations and transplants save up to 3,000 lives per month. The urgency for more organs is continually increasing, and the process of becoming a donor is very simple to become a donor. Being one provides the chance to give the most precious gift there is: a second chance at life. The positive aspects of organ transplantation will always outweigh the negative.

Every day, an average of 79 people receive an organ transplant. However, an average of 22 people die each day waiting for transplants that can’t take place because of the deficiency of donated organs. Paying organ donors is prohibited by the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which has led desperate people on the transplant waiting list to turn to the black market in order to purchase their needed organ. We should be able to create a legal market for the purchase and sale of human organs. A legal market would not only increase the number of donated organs and save countless lives, but would also reduce crime and violence associated with the black market.

As today’s doctors and medical researchers continue to make huge advances and breakthroughs to better the welfare of society, there still remains an urgent problem. Several decades ago doctors performed the first organ transplantation, and have been using the procedure to treat patients with severe medical conditions who are in need of new organs to replace their diseased and damaged ones. While this form of treatment has proven very successful and beneficial to society, there still remains a major lack of organ donors. In fact, UNOS states that over 115,000 people are on a waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant and an average of twenty people die each day waiting for a transplant (UNOS, 2017). As this demand for organ and tissue donations continues to be unmet by the number of organ donors there are, people in need of these donations desperately seek a solution to their often life-threatening problem. One alternative solution is the black market for human organs. While this seems like a potentially good solution for those in need of organs to receive them and those in need of extra cash to benefit from giving up a “spare kidney” for example, the black market for human organs leads to a major problem: people in need being taken advantage of. While this type of trade often goes unnoticed and sometimes even unthought of by some, it is a very pressing problem because of the tremendously negative effects it has on both parties involved: both the buyers and sellers of the organs. However, there is a solution. While it is often very difficult to change public opinions and to change the way society feels in general towards a certain matter, the black market for human organs could be greatly reduced, if not eliminated, if the issue is made more public and shown as a criminal act with serious repercussions as organ donation is brought to the public’s attention as a humane and even necessary call to citizens.

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

Millions of people all over the world die each year due to organ failure; however, doctors have found a way to remedy this issue through organ donation, a process in which a person gives up a working organ to a patient in need. A few of the most common transplants performed are kidneys, livers, and lungs: donors may include both the living and the deceased. This process requires major, extensive testing and long periods of searching for organ matches. Medical professionals and ordinary citizens from all over the world argue whether people should receive a financial compensation for the donation of organs. Some people believe the donation process should be done simply because of moral values, while others feel organ donation should be rewarded in some form. Meanwhile, many people are dying due to a lack of available organs as this issue is being disputed. Because organ donation has become such a dire issue in the medical world, society has to institute a new method of saving lives.

The need for organs is a growing dilemma amongst America and countries all over the world. Thousands of people sit on waiting lists in hopes to receive a new organ never knowing if they will actually receive one before their delicate organ gives up. Although many people are willing to be donors upon the time of their own death, the shortage of organs hangs over the patients and families who deal with the reality of an organ shortage every day. One solution that has been proposed is allowing people to be able to sell their own organs in order to meet the need that is out there now. Constructing a program that allows the sale of an organ would lead to a decrease in the black market for organs, an increase in organ availability, and create a greater awareness of the need for more organ donors.

Organ donation is an increasing practice in the medical field, which saves countless lives every year. Patients who are eligible for organ transplantation have an organ in their body that has either failed or works improperly and requires a new organ to be enable their body to work properly again. This problem can happen to people of any age from young children all the way to the elderly. Organ donors, either after death or alive, supply these people with a better functioning organ through donation. On the downside, there are not enough people willing to donate as there are patients in need.

Legalizing the Sale of Human Organs, In Hopes of Putting the Black Market Out of Business