Pros And Cons Of Organ Transplantation

I find this issue compelling because I know it affects a lot of people. If this proposal actually went into effect, it would be much easier to receive help if you had a damaged organ. Organ transplants in the present day are very expensive even if you have health insurance with high coverage. Another problem is that some organs are so high in demand that there is a waiting list, on which patients can remain for months or years. Increasing the number of donated organs would increase the number of operations which in effect would bring down the expenses and eliminate organ waiting

The argument of whether organ donors should be compensated for their efforts has become a heated topic. The two sides of the argument have equally valid points, but one must look to the benefit of not only the organ recipients, but also to the donors and to their well-being. There are more ways than one to get the desired organs, not all of them legal in the least. The exploitation of the poor that would accompany the choice of paying people for organ donation would most likely be devastating. Ultimately, organ donation should remain a gift between the donor and the recipient to reduce the chance of exploitation of any participants.

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.

Organ donation definition: it takes healthy organs and tissues from one person(the donor) for transplantation into another(the recipient).

Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant. We need a way to save these lives, and we have one: Organ donation. When you become an organ donor, you can saves the lives up to eight people. Controversy surrounds this option for many reasons, and some do not find this option to be ethical but most believe it is what God’s calls us to do. The Catholic sees it as love and charity.

When you are asked if you want to be an organ donor, why say no? People die everyday because of the lack of people becoming organ donors. Everyone should be an organ donor if they qualify. Organ donation is the process of removing organs from a donor to a recipient who needs it to live. Many people around the world are waiting on a list while they are suffering, and could be for years to follow because there aren’t enough donors for the number of recipients. Right now there are 115,429 people waiting for organs. We could be saving more lives then we are today by simply requiring organ donation. Although there are valid reasons people say no to it, but there are many more reasons to be a donor.

While almost all religions agree that organ donations are acceptable and individual members can make their own decisions, there are some restrictions. Jehovah 's Witnesses allow only for organs that have been completely drained of blood due to the belief that transfusions are disallowed in the Bible. The Muslim religion absolutely demands that there be prior written consents before an organ transplant takes place. Orthodox Judaism claims it is necessary and proper if a life can be saved to perform an organ transplant as long as the donor is proclaimed dead as defined by Jewish law. The Shinto religion and the customs of the Gypsies are two notable groups that disallow

There are many facts about organ donation that many people do not know. In Australia they use an opt-out system meaning everyone is an organ donor at death this keeps the organ donation waiting list really low at only one thousand, five hundred people at any one time while the USA has an opt-in system meaning you ask to be put in and at any one time seventy-four

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

Imagine if you were in need of a transplant and was waiting for the day when you found your donor match. Many recipients are stuck on the waitlist for a donor and sometimes even pass away because the waitlist took too long. To avoid this issue, a few ideas or systems should be considered in order to make the process quicker. Currently organ donations only consist of hair, blood plasma, and sperm and egg. Since removing your kidney is a riskier procedure than donating your hair, receiving money for the process will influence people to donate. Adding kidneys to the accepted list of organ sales can cause an uproar both good and bad, but may overall benefit those in need. The process of organ donations in the United States is an unstable procedure, but with the improvement in the system black markets can be stopped, awareness can be improved, and more lives will be saved.

In 1990 after the reunification the European nations tried to balance the organ allocation fairly but resentment grew over organs going to the previously underserved East Germans. Discontent about organs being donated in one country such as the Austria could be given to recipients in another country even though the flow goes in both directions was heigthend. The Germans are caught in a difficult position; push for more donations, and they raise the spector of Nazis medical policies; back off and they risk the appearance that they are poaching organs from other countries.’11 German organ donations have always been lower than other nations that are members of the Eurotransplant International. Interestingly there has been controversy in Europe and discontent about organs being donated in one country such as Austria could be given to recipients in another country even though the flow goes in both

Many people who need transplants of organs and tissues cannot get them because of a shortage of donations. Every month, more than 2,000 new names are added to the national waiting list for organ

The right to assisted suicide is a compelling topic that concerns all of the world. The wide-range of debates are constantly alternating about whether a dying patient has the right to die with the assistance of a physician. Some are against it because of religious and moral reasons. Half of society believes that God should choose when to end one’s life while others are for it because of their benevolence and respect for the dying. When people see the word euthanasia, they see the meaning of the word in two different perspectives. Euthanasia for some carries a negative insinuation; it is a one-way ticket to murder. For others, however, euthanasia is the act of putting someone to death painlessly without causing harm. But after studying and learning

Organ transplant has been hailed as one of the greatest achievements of modern surgery. There are however, many ethical difficulties and argument associated with this procedure. factor that needs to be considered was the cost of organ transplant, as all organ transplants are very expensive, as it includes the surgical process and later on, the continuing treatment process. Would this mean that a rich person would get a new organ and a poor person refused .Therefore they Setting up a National Transplant Fund, whose role was to help and fund organ transplant of those in need, reduced this problem.

There is an abundance of animals, specifically pigs, that can be used for organ transplantation. The pigs can be bred and maintained for the purpose of “harvesting their organs” in a clean environment (Bryan and Clare 3). A pig’s diet and living environment can be controlled and kept constant to reduce the possibility of disease entering the body. Breeding pigs for the purpose of xenotransplantation would reduce the time a patient must wait to receive an organ. Rather than waiting for human to be screened and tested before they are admitted to the hospital, the patient can quickly have a clean, documented pig ready for the transplant. Pigs can also serve a dual purpose rather than just bacon and pork chops. The pigs that have already been used for their organs can later be taken to a slaughterhouse thus using as much of the animal as possible while leaving little to be disposed of. By reducing the waiting time for an organ, xenotransplantation saves many human being’s lives. With eighty-one thousand people people waiting for organs (Hansen) and even more in Australia and around the world, time is precious for these patients waiting on what could be their deathbeds (Cowan). Xenotransplantation would drastically lower the amount people in line for organs and save many human lives. Also, the six thousand people that die every year on the waiting list could possibly have a second chance at life with the help of xenotransplantation