Recently, over 90,000 American men, women, and children are waiting for new kidneys. However, only about 16,500 kidneys were donated for transplant operations to be performed. These show that quite simple high demand and low supplies. According to the Professor Mcnaught’s lecture, the cost of a kidney transplant runs about $250,000 and its bill goes up to $70,000 annually. Dialysis is even becoming more expensive and price-inelastic. To solve this high demand and low supplies situation that causes people die while they are waiting for organ donators, we have to find a way to increase the supply of organs that could reduce waiting times and deaths. The most effective way will be to provide compensation for organ donators; in other words, we need to establish a market for organs.
The first successful kidney transplant was done in Boston in 1954. Since then, the techniques were developed for immune system to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs. Although the number of organ transplants has grown rapidly, it did not grow as much as the number of people with defective organs who need transplant. Furthermore, it is illegal to pay for organ transplant. Many people who are waiting for kidneys are on dialysis, and their life expectancy is not much expected. For example, people age 45 to 49 live about eight additional years when they remain on dialysis. However, they can live an additional twenty-three years if they can get a kidney from someone else. As a result, about 4,500 people died while waiting for their kidney donators in 2012. Many of them died because people could not replace their kidneys quickly enough. In this regard we must establish market for organs.
Organ market would save lives. A healthy person can live with on...
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... the situation, there is no replace other than sale of kidneys. At least, there will not be any people who are dying because of waiting times. Moreover, the current three to four year waiting time will be reduced. Most importantly, 4,500 people will be saved every year. Selling organs is certainly safe and cheap compared to saving lives every year.
This is so obvious that the result of sale of kidney will affect our society and our economics in positive ways. About five thousand people will be saved, the shortage of organs and excessive demand of organs will be reduced enormously, and eventually altruistic donations will be reduced either. Concerning moral issues is subjective matter. The first issue we must concern is saving lives. Although the cost of transplants will increase hugely, at least, we can prevent many deaths from waiting donators.
Organ Donation Donna Vega West Coast University Abstract Organ donations plays a major role in health care today. With thousands of people all across the United States in need of an organ transplant, organ donations have become a benefit. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of organ donors because of the myths and facts associated with organ donation. With many people being placed on a waitlist, there are very few people willing to be donors. In addition, factors such as complications during
The Life Saving Benefits of Organ Donation There is one clear fact that every person in this world can agree on: at some point in our lives, we are all going to face the reality of death. Death is imminent to each and every one of us, and the prospect of death is usually unknown and very tragic to most people. It is the unknown that can instill the fear of dying in a person or a family. Tragic accidents and terminal diseases are often the source of many deaths, and invariably in those instances
family members. Could organ donation be put into consideration for the family? The family responds with looks of curiosity and confusion. B. By all means, this idea not easy to discuss. Organ donation is an extremely arduous and controversial topic and has its negatives and positives. Prior to the commitment of being an organ donor, people may wonder, Why is donating so important? Or what are the benefits if I donate? C. People make their decisions to commit to organ donation based off of religious
Organ Donation Organ donation is a topic which contains many conflicting views. To some of the public population organ donation is a genuine way of saving the life of another, to some it is mistrusted and to others it is not fully understood. There are some techniques that can be used to increase donation. Of these techniques the most crucial would be being educated. If the life threatening and the critical shortage of organs was fully understood by the public, organ donation would more
Organ Donation I. I will ask the class about how they feel when they wait for something. II. To persuade my audience to become organ donors. III. After listening to my speech, my audience will be more eager to become organ donors. IV. There is not enough organ. V. Become an organ donor. VI. Today, I will talk to you about the need for organ donation, the solutions for insufficient of organ, and how donating your organ benefit the society. Transition: let’s start by talking about some of the problems
my audience to become organ donors and sign up online Central Idea: my central idea are what organ donation is and how it works, arguments against organ donation and refutations, and how to become an organ donor and benefits of organ donation Good evening, everyone I want to start by doing a quick poll, just raise your hand once I asked the question. Has anyone here ever saved a life from ending? If a good portion say, “you can save even more people by becoming an organ donor.” If not a good
Organ transplants can affect the way the patients and their families actively live out the life span. Many different people may need an organ transplant from another person because their organs may be failing. According to “They should be encouraged to think about their own wishes about donation, to discuss their wishes with their family and friends and to use established mechanisms to formally record them by opting into, or out of, donation” (WMA Statement on Organ and Tissue Donation, 2017). There
that an organ has the ability to make a positive change is someone life? Anyone that is over the age of eighteen has the ability to donate. Minors can donate as well if the consent of the parents is given. The statement everyone can donate is truly accurate because honestly everyone has the ability to sign up to be a donor. Organ donation is when a live or deceased donor gives consent for their organs to be used as donated organs to another individual that is in need of those organs. The organs that
to increase organ donations. Utilitarianism is a theory that seeks to increase the greatest good for the greatest amount of people (Pense2007, 61). The utilitarian theory is the best approach because it maximizes adult organ donations (which are the greater good) so that the number of lives saved would increase along with the quality of life, and also saves money and time. A utilitarian would argue that organ donations save lives because when citizens continue to donate their organs, more lives
between the number of people waiting for donated organs to save their lives and the number of organs available to be donated (Beil, 2013). Nurses play an important role in the organ donation process because they are usually the first ones to identify a potential organ donor from providing nursing care to that person (Manuel, Solberg, & MacDonald, 2010). Nurses also are responsible for providing families with pertinent information regarding organ donation, taking the step to question the family if they
Introduction Human organ transplantation is known as the removal of a living tissue or organ from one individual by surgical operation, and it is placed into another individual, with the aim of improving the health of the recipient. It was started in the 1930s. In 1933, human renal graft was tried out by Voronoy, a Russian scientist, and it has vastly advanced since then. Human organ transplant is now viewed as treatment rather than experiments as they can now be performed more safely. This has been
given time there are countless individuals whose organs are failing them to the point of threatening their lives. In the world at any given time there are also countless healthy individuals and individuals taking their last breath, who possess what those aforementioned individuals need to survive. Given this truth, we would argue that any recantations about organ donation do not outweigh the proponents of organ donation. We propose that organ donation should be mandatory upon the death of an individual
In today's society, organ donation is a common medical procedure that can be used to save or enhance the quality of a person's life. Organ donation is widely accepted medically because of all the benefits it can produce. But, this process has varying opinions of acceptance and rejection when it comes to the diverse religions and cultures that are followed. While many religions do accept the concept of organ donation, there are also many that are opposed to it because the process interferes with their
Technology Mr Kegley 6th September 23, 2015 Organ Donations Organ donation is the process of surgical removing an organ or tissue from the organ owner and placing it into the recipient. The donation is usually made when the donor has no use for their belongings (after death) so they give the recipient the necessary organ/tissue that has failed or has been damaged by injury or disease. I agree with the idea of organ donations, the reason I support organ donations is because I believe that it can cause
Organ donation is the process of removing an organ or tissue from organ donor and placing it into the recipient (Cleveland Clinic, 2015). This is important because donation of organs to the person whose organ has failed or has been damaged by disease or injury can get their life back after transplantation. But in todays ' world the number of recipient is more than the number of donor. The organ and tissues which can be transplanted in modern medicine are liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, lungs, intestine