Human Organ Sales

The Selling of Humans Organs

A Let me tell you a story. This story is about a boy. His name is James. James is 12 years old and since he was 8, he has been receiving dialysis treatments. For the last 4 years a kidney has not been available for a transplant. B The fact is that only one of every four patients each year receives the organ they need ( “Have a Heart”). C Unfortunately, a lot of people are in the same situation as James, and this because the only way for these people to get a kidney, is if someone were to willing give up their kidney, or if someone who is an organ donor happens to die. As medical practices increasingly get better with time the need for organ transplants increase as well, but the number of organs available is not increasing. D An easy way to help fix this problem is to simple make the buying and selling of organs legal. The legalization of human organ sales is a good idea because the number of patients in need of organs greatly outweighs the number of organs available, the failure rate of transplants from living donors is much less than that from dead donors, and

F “According to the current United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) report, kidneys from living donors have about half the failure rate of kidneys from dead donors.” (Cihak 40-3). G This is a sad but true fact, and what makes that worse is that right now only about 36 percent of organ transplants are from living donors (Cihak 40-3). H If look at the one year survival rates for both live and dead donations it only further supports this fact. After one year, only 2-3 percent of living kidney donations had been rejected, but over 10 percent of dead donations had been rejected (Cihak 40-3). I J K Through this information you can see that if organ selling was legal then there would been an increase in live donations thus increasing the success of organ transplants