Persuasive Essay On Organ Transplants

Modern medicine has provided the world with the capability of organ transplants, thus resulting in saving countless lives. However, an exceeding problem exists because there is an insignificant amount of organs available to meet the existing need. A black market, which consists of a person selling one of their organs, or in some cases multiple organs, to someone who wishes to buy the organ has been created due to the unelevated amount of available organs. Trading organs in exchange for money is illegal in almost all countries except one. Iran is currently the only country in the world that allows organ trade, or the selling of one’s organs. In 2010, a total of 2,285 kidney transplants took place in the country within the organ trade. Now, what

The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 has prohibited organ purchases. If one violates the ban on organ trade then they “shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both” (National Organ Transplant Act of 1984). Since the banning of selling one’s organs in 1984, organ recipients must be put on a waiting list. In America alone, twenty-one people die each day while waiting for an organ to become available for them; and every ten minutes another name is added to the already outrageously lengthy national organ transplant waiting list (Donate Life). While there are people who are organ donors, there are not enough people who are educated on being an organ donor, thus creating in too many people in need of organs and not enough being available to these potential organ recipients. In American, as well as other countries across the world, there is the black market for organs. People are selling their organs to those who need it in exchange for money. While the government has accepted the fact that there are not enough donors, they have created the Dead Donor Rule. The Dead Donor Rule simply states that the person must be pronounced dead before any vital organs may be removed. There is a lot of controversy regarding this rule such as the definition of “dead”. According to the Dead Donor Rule the person must be “not breathing nor have a heart beat” (The Dead Donor Rule and

Adults have the presumptive right to do as they wish to their own body. Many believe that being a living donor should be based solely on one’s sense of altruism, and not having the desire to be rewarded financially. People thrive off of rewards. If a kindergarten teacher wants Sam to stop misbehaving, then she will move his name from green to yellow. The rest of the class managed to stay on green, which is the color that represents good behavior, so they got rewarded with five extra minutes of free time while Sam had to do course work because he got moved to yellow, which means he wasn’t well behaved. The next day, Sam managed to stay on green and received five extra minutes of free time along with his other classmates who stayed on green. For the rest of the week Sam was well behaved all because he enjoyed his reward of extra free time. If people are rewarded then they will continue to do what it is that they are being rewarded for. The fact is that this system will benefit both parties. If the donor is a living donor and they wish to give uncritical organs to a potential organ recipient, the donor will get a finical reward and the supererogatory of one’s mindset; while the recipient will receive an organ that they have been waiting months, maybe even years on. On the other hand, if the donor is recently deceased, and the hospital buys the rights to this person’s organ, then recipients in need of