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The Real Life Game of Operation Organ transplantation is an amazing accomplishment of modern science which grants the recipient a prolonged life. Sadly, today the demand for organs is not being closely met, leading to the world’s organ shortage. Thus far, solutions aimed to increase organ donors have failed, which seems to have lead ultimately to what is referred to as the organ trade. With the problem of the organ shortage people have become desperate, to the point where they have come up with the solution of removing their own organs and even the organs of people who have been trafficked in order to sell them in the organ trade. Not only an ongoing problem in the United States, the organ trade is a problem being faced all over the world. Imagine going out with friends but waking up in a …show more content…

The people who removed and stole your organ are hoping to make a profit through the organ trade, a profit in which you will never see a penny of. Though this scenario is fictional, it does happen to innocent people who get involved with the organ trade through human trafficking. In no way are organ donation and the organ trade the same, between the two many differences can be found such as who they deal with in matching the recipient and donor, how they match the recipient and donor, how they get their organs, and the legality of each. According to David Shafran and his coauthors, with organ donation, organs are matched and processed through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which follows specific guidelines and procedures put in place to match the recipient and donor. In the same article by Shafran and his coauthors it mentions exactly how allocation of a

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