Argumentative Essay On Organ Donation

The need for organ donations creates another ethical dilemma for Emergency Room Physicians. “Obtaining organs from emergency room patients has long been considered off-limits in the United States because of ethical and logistical concerns” (Stein, 2010). The shortage of organs available for transplant has caused many patients die while waiting. A pilot project from the federal government “has begun promoting an alternative that involves surgeons taking organs, within minutes, from patients whose hearts have stopped beating but who have not been declared brain-dead” (Stein, 2010). “The Uniform Determination of Death Act

Organ transplantation is a term that most people are familiar with. When a person develops the need for a new organ either due to an accident or disease, they receive a transplant, right? No, that 's not always right. When a person needs a new organ, they usually face a long term struggle that they may never see the end of, at least while they are alive. The demand for transplant organs is a challenging problem that many people are working to solve. Countries all over the world face the organ shortage epidemic, and they all have different laws regarding what can be done to solve it. However, no country has been able to create a successful plan without causing moral and ethical dilemmas.

Organ donation could save the life of so many Individuals. One organ donor can save or significantly improve the lives of a minimum of seven others (Morgan, 2004). There has been a severe shortage in the availability of organ for transplantation. Presently, more than 40,000 patients in the United States are expecting organ transplants and it is guesstimated that about 60,000 people die yearly due to limited availability of organ for transplantation (Skumanich et al., 1996). The demand for organ donor is rising as transplant surgery turn out to be increasingly popular and successful in saving the lives of many individuals. Card

Every day, 20 people die because they are unable to receive a vital organ transplant that they need to survive. Some of these people are on organ donation lists and some of them are not. The poor and minorities are disproportionately represented among those who do not receive the organs they need. In the United States alone, nearly 116,000 people are on waiting lists for vital organ transplants. Another name is added to this list every 10 minutes. This paper will argue that organ donation should not be optional. Every person who dies, or enters an irreversible vegetative state with little or no brain function, should have his or her organs-more specifically, those among the organs that are suitable for donation-harvested. A single healthy donor who has died can save up to eight lives (American Transplant Foundation).

Many ethnic groups have the idea that they have been born with their organs, God has given them for a reason, they are for their use, and that they do not think that it is right to pass them to anyone else. Also, some Christians want to die whole, so there can be issues with the mutilation side of organ donation. In many religious groups, as well as people who have very

A controversial and prominent issue in the United States consists of organ transplants. Even though the waiting list currently has 115,000 transplant candidates, this number does not reflect the dire need for organ donors. A valid option the President’s Commission on Bioethics (PCB) should take into consideration consists of regulating an organ market. Currently, organ donors do not receive compensation for their time, effort, and overall donation of their organ. The United States should regulate the opportunity for people to buy and sell organs in a safe and legal environment. This method should be adopted because it is ethically acceptable. The buying and selling of organs respects the autonomy of donors, provides societal beneficence by potentially saving the lives of others, and goes hand-in-hand with the principle of nonmaleficence.

These include immediate family’s response, hospital care for donors, religious attributes, funeral arrangements post donation. Immediate family response to organ donation and should come as no shock to them, in the British Medical Journal article “Organ Donation” written by Paul J Frost, Stephen Leadbeatter and Matthew P Wise it states, “Donation may provide some comfort to grieving family and have a beneficial effect on the bereavement process.” Pg. 1097. Hospital care for donors is no different than that of a non-donor, in the article “Organ donation: Don't let these myths confuse you” the Mayo Clinic states “When you go to the hospital for treatment, doctors focus on saving your life — not somebody else's. You'll be seen by a doctor whose specialty most closely matches your particular condition.” par. 5. Religious attributes and organ donation do not seem to be an issue, and it is looked upon as a great generosity, Organdonor.gov states, “Most major religions in the United States support organ donation and consider donation as the final act of love and generosity toward others.” par 3. Another common misunderstanding is funeral arrangements for people who have donated organs Donatelife.net educates us by stating, “An open casket funeral is possible for organ, eye and tissue donors. Through the entire donation process the body is treated with care and respect. Funeral arrangements

The need for organs for donation surpasses the supply of organ availability. In the last decade this has led to restructuring and investment in the organ donation program with political and public support. The majority of transplanted organs are retrieved from patients dying on an intensive care unit, and the wish to consider organ donation as a normal part of end-of-life care has led to considerable pressure on clinicians to adhere to the large amount of practical and ethical guidance being published to achieve this. There has not been universal acceptance of the guidance by critical care clinicians, and this paper explores some of the concerns related to the practicalities of the evolving changes in management of potential organ donation patients within intensive care units.

Organ donation is a successful process of removing tissues or organs surgically from one person to another (Cleveland Clinic, 2013). Many questions based on organ donation run along the lines of why people do not donate, but many do not realize that not everyone is allowed or able to donate because some people are not physically capable to have a successful transplant (Prigent et al., 2014). Meaning that the donor’s organs are too weak, or the donor’s organs are too old, in some cases the donor and recipient do not have the same blood type, which then causes alloimmunization (Kawano et al., 2014; Prigent et al., 2014). In the United States, there are more than 117,000 people waiting for an organ donor and 18 people on the waiting list die

Today the demand for organ transplantation is increasing; the need has outgrown the supply and the waiting lists are long. According to UNOS, currently 118,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant. There are more transplant specialists, the immune rejection has improved, more transplants are being performed than ever before and the future will demand even more.

Its main dilemmas act on the patient’s autonomy and the religious beliefs of the patient’s family. The hospital is trying to walk the thin line of legal but also the right thing to do, and the organ donor candidates are at the mercy of what the parents and hospital decide. Aside from this the parents should also consider the other patients that can be saved from the death of their son. The experience of losing a son can be traumatizing, but to be able to see that he will not be forgotten but thanked for the rest of the next patient’s life has its own merits and should be heavily looked at especially because the parents are religious and most likely want to help others. The patient has the ability to decide what he does on his own. He, like other patients, have autonomy because they can understand their situation and make decisions based on that. In this case the patient cannot respond and will die soon. He made his wishes clear though that he would like to be an organ donor and hence should be allowed to donate his organs to other people in need of organs. As for the parent’s religious beliefs, the hospital should respect their wishes and accommodate as much as possible, but ultimately decide on what is best for the hospital. The ERF’s in this case directly clash with each other due to the completely opposite positions they represent. The parents want to have their son be put off of life support and laid to rest, while the son had become an organ donor and wanted to give his organs to anyone in need of one. The patient’s autonomy and parent’s religious beliefs come into direct opposition because of this complicating the process for the hospital and leading them to choose between honoring a vegetative patient’s organ donor status and letting his parents decide what to

In these times of rapidly advancing health care technology, on an everyday basis Christian healthcare providers are faced with critical problems that could give rise to doubts and questions related to the relationship between modern medicine and Christian ethics. One such medical advancement is the practice of organ donation and transplantation. The first successful organ transplant took place in 1954 and since then the issues related to this practice have become increasingly complex. If one looks at it superficially, many people quickly consider the concept that the donation and receipt of organs as morally correct. Furthermore, even the results of recent surveys and polls suggest that that approximately 85 percent of Americans believe that

Therefore, people from all around the world are being asked one question, “if you had the chance to donation an organ when you were medically pronounced ‘dead’, would you?” For some this is an easy decision, giving away something that you no longer need for the purpose of providing the recipient with life. For others this becomes an ethical issue, where the heart is considered to be a physical representation of the soul and not a commodity to be given away (Ehtuish, N.D).

Even if it isn’t obvious why certain living patients shouldn’t be allowed to donate their organs, because if that happened, it would benefit others and be consistent with their own interests. In a recent case, a young girl had gotten into an accident that made her have a great deal of brain damage. The parents of the girl wanted to donate her organs after the bad accident. The parents and the doctors at the hospital had made plans to quit having her on life support and take her organs out of her shortly after her death. The plan to donate her organs was aborted because the girl didn’t die quick enough to let the hospital get her viable organs. The parents of the daughter were saddened by this such event happening. They were curious as to why their daughter couldn’t have been given an anesthetic and had the organs removed before the life support was terminated. A recent compromise has been reached by certain officials that when organ obtainment may begin before the loss of circulation is known to be irreversible, and that such information is provided by a clinician. The clinician has to wait long enough to have confidence that the heart won’t start working again by its own self. The patient agrees that he or she doesn’t want revived from unconsciousness and the doctors at the hospital agree that the procedure won’t be attempted. If this does

Imagine seeing one who is on his or her death bed, struggling day by day to survive and having the power to change that. According to About Organ Donation “More than 120,000 people in the United States are waiting for organ transplants”(1). Individuals who could help with this problem the most effectively are brain dead patients. Being brain dead means the affected one's brain no longer sends signals to his or her body; thus, they no longer have any physical functions. Brain dead patients have no way to breathe on their own, so hospitals have machines breath for the person in order to keep the organs alive until the organs can be harvested. However, the problem is that some family members in charge of giving consent for their loved one’s organs to be harvested, are not giving consent, but rather letting the organs go to waste. Family members should give the consent to harvest organs from patients that are clinically brain dead because brain death is irreversible, the patients can no longer function, and one’s organs can extend a person’s life.