Arguments Against Organ Donation

“Getting an organ transplant could add four or more years to your life” (Brown, 2015). Anyone who has received an organ transplant can tell you how it saved their life. Any organ a certain person is given via transplant needs that organ in order to survive. The problem with this is, there are not enough organs available to be transplanted causing about twenty-one people to die per day (“Organ Donation Facts” 2015). This really shows how important it is for some people to receive their transplant as soon as they can. With a person being added to the list of people waiting for an organ as quickly as every twelve minutes, many people cannot receive a transplant until it is too late (“Organ Donation Facts” 2015). With all this being said, some people wonder if organ transplantation is a good thing or a bad thing. I believe organ transplantation is a good thing and can be used to save and extend the lives of the recipient. However some people believe this process is bad and disagree

One issue with organ transplantation is the difficulty to get a organ that is useable. It is hard for people to find usable organs that they can safely transplant into another individual. According to Caplan (2002) “Two basic strategies have been proposed to provide incentives for people to sell their organs when they die” (p. 2). Caplan goes into detail as to what these incentives are. One strategy is to permit organ sale in the United States (Caplan 2002). This would have to involve the changing of the National Organ Transplant Act which bans all selling of organs (Caplan 2002). Another possible option would be to create a market where the government would do the purchasing of the organs by setting fixed prices as well as enforcing conditions of a sale (Caplan 2002). With these incentives the government hopes to increase the amount of organ donors willing to allow the transplantation of their organs when they