Organ Transplantation

Do you think organ donations is good idea? Well in the book “The House of the Scorpion” and the movie “My Sister’s Keeper.” Humans are created to use for organs donations. My opinion is that organ transplant should not be allow for many reason. Many people are marketing illegal kidney. So how they getting them?

These events have raised many ethical, moral and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation, the use of living donors as volunteers including minors.² Due to the high costs of organ transplants, most patients use a combination of sources. Some patients can finance the transplant procedure through their primary insurance coverage and use savings and other private funds to pay for other expenses. Many patients work with community fundraising groups to complete their transplant financial strategy.² The costs of an organ transplant will vary for each patient, based on insurance coverage, the type of transplant and the location of the transplant center. Patients will also have a lifetime of medical expenses for follow-up care and

A person with damaged organ due to unhealthy life style may look for a living donor to donate their organ because it allows them to bypass the long waiting time. Human organ such as kidney can be donated while the donor is alive furthermore there are both negative and positive sides to this idea. According to the UNOS website, the patient can start taking anti-rejection drugs in advance to avoid transplant rejection and often find a better match donor because most of the living donors are genetically related to the patient. Drawback to donating your organ while alive may include health consequences such as infection, pain, bleeding, and discomfort. And in many cases, people get pressured to donate their organs to its family member or loved one. Living organ donor can put their life in risk order to save someone else’s life and they should know all these negative consequences that may follow. Transplant recipient Peter Platt who had received kidney from his sibling at New York Presbyterian Hospital, was re-hospitalized within a week of surgery due to severe infections that caused him transplant rejection. His wife, Shirin Platt, who had contacted the federal health official about this incident, stated, "The kidney transplant was supposed to be the gift of life, but it ended up taking it away… At the very least, we need to make sure that

In the United States alone, 19 people die every day waiting on an organ transplant that could have saved their lives. The only solution to this problem is getting more drivers registered as organ donors. It has been proposed that the states automatically register their drivers as donors and it is up to the drivers to go through the procedure of opting out if that is what they wish. I agree with this proposal because you still have the freedom to make your choice but most people would not want to go through the process of opting out, so the number of organ donors would be greatly increased.

If a patient from poorer circumstances were at the top of the list she might get an organ though it would cost her everything she has. Having to pay the donor as well as the doctors and hospital would raise the price that the recipient would have to pay so high that she would never be able to cover it, and she might be overlooked altogether as a candidate for transplant.

Imagine your child needs a heart transplant. If she gets it in time, she’ll live a long, healthy life. Without it, your child has, at most, one year to live. The article “Why Legalizing Organ Sales Would Help Save Lives, End Violence” published in The Atlantic on November 11, 2011, written by Anthony Gregory, claims that organ sales should be legalized because many people die on the transplant list before they can get an organ. Gregory gives an insight on some of the benefits of organ transplants and how in some countries, it is legal for people to sell their organs. The text is directed toward medical personnel because it causes them to question, “what if”, organ sales legalized or what would they gain from this legalization? His article is also directed towards people in need of an organ, and organ donors. Gregory is successful when he uses logical, emotional and ethical tactics to persuade his audience on why organ sales would be beneficial.

Thesis statement: The problem of organ shortage is a very serious now. More and more people are waiting for organs to continue their lives. We have the responsibilities to understand the situation and give a hand to solve the problem.

In conclusion, Organ donation is a subject of controversy between societies in west and east. In order to implement this program efficiently and avoid the high rates of refusals we need a core cultural development. This development will revolve around changing the mentality of the members of a society while giving them the feeling of social responsibility. Finally since we are living in an islamic society, we have the priority to succeed in this program by following what god says, ”Whosoever saves the life of one person it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind.” Holy Qur'an, chapter 5 vs.

The process of donation most often begins with your consent to be a donor by registering in your state. Signing up does not guarantee you will be able to donate your organs, eyes, or tissues but it is the first step to being eligible to save lives. For someone to become a deceased donor, he or she has to die in very specific circumstances. Once a person dies, the hospital notifies the local Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) to see if the patient that died can donate. The OPO matches the organs to the best-matched patient. While the search for matching recipients is under way, the deceased donor's organs are maintained on artificial support. Machines keep blood containing oxygen flowing to the organs. When the transplantation is about to happen, the surgical team removes the organs and tissues from the donor's body in an operating room. First, the organs are recovered and then all the incisions are surgically

Organ Donation, only two hundred one thousand, four hundred and fifty-nine people are registered at death since 1988 and only one hundred fifty-two thousand and ninety people were living donors since 1988. Compared to the amount of people who died with organs that are donatable, that 's not much and the amount of living donors compared to the amount of living people right now is three hundred twenty-five million, seven hundred sixty-two thousand, seven hundred and ten the amount of living donors is only 21.4190748899% of the population. It seems many people that can donate don’t know all the facts of organ donation. Even though some people believe stuff they view on television, television writers usually over exaggerate things. Despite advances in medicine and technology, and increased awareness of organ donation and transplantation, there continues to be a gap between supply and demand. The United States should be an opt-in system instead of an opt-out system and if anything help people change their minds and become either live donors or donors when they pass-away with facts, common misconceptions, and myths.

One reason why someone would be proposed to it because of ethics. They believe that it should be your choice to donate, and not the government 's. But without the government 's help, not enough organs are being donated. People die everyday for various reasons, however most of their organs are being buried or burned with them. Their organs should not be buried with them, if they could save the lives of people dying each day waiting for organs. Sometimes the government needs to step in, and help for the bigger picture. Another counterargument is Religion. There is over 4,200 religions in the world, and each religion 's practices different beliefs. People who are against Presumed Consent would say having freedom to practice your own religion is in the first amendment. However, most main religions promote the idea because it’s a selfless act. “In general there has been broad support for organ donation among most faith communities,” (organdonor.gov). For example one major religion, Catholicism, says “Organ, eye, and tissue donation is considered an act of charity and love, and transplants are morally and ethically acceptable to the Vatican. (Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 86)” Another example is , Islam, The Fourth Conference of the Islamic Fiqh Council determined that transplantation offers “clear positive results” if practiced “...to achieve the aims of sharee 'ah which tries to achieve all that is good and in the best interests of individuals and societies and promotes cooperation, compassion and

There are many ethical issues facing health care at any time and it is impossible to say definitively which is the most pressing or the most important. Health care professionals are expected to base their practice on a set of ethical principles, including truthfulness, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and confidentiality. Ethical issues can arise, however, when a l professional is called upon to act in opposition to personal values or in cases where the values of patient, health care worker, and sponsoring institution conflict. The following issues are presented in no order.

In 2017, 510 people deceased donors donated their organs, saving over 1,400 people, and giving them the gift of organ donation. In 2017. ‘The most important thing that helps a family's decision is their knowing the donation decision of their loved one' (Donate Life, 2017) only 60% of Australians discuss their wishes for organ donation with their family, meaning the other 40% of Australian families are more than likely to decline organ donation, this is one of the biggest barriers for Australian organ donation. Also, during a conducted survey between the year 12 health class and other students, within figure 1, it can be shown that only 13.4% of people were registered to become an organ donor in Australia, compared to Australia's 76% (Transplant Australia, 2016). Furthermore, 40% of Australians don’t know if their religion supports organ and tissue donation, and 20% of families that declined donation in 2014 did so out of religious or cultural concerns, this amount is huge, if people who were educated in whether or not their religion accepts organ donation, a whole 20% of families would allow their loved one to proceed with organ and tissue transplantation, this barrier is one of the largest ones to date. Another barrier that stops organ donation procedures is the knowledge of people and thinking they're either not healthy enough, or they're too old to donate their organs, the majority (78%) of Australians aged 65+ years are willing to donate organs and tissues, yet 37% assume they are too old to be considered for organ and tissue donation (Donatelife, 2014). In figure 2, it can be shown that although Australia may be leading in successful organ transplantations in the world, that the reason is