Joanna MacKay says in her essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives, that “Lives should not be wasted; they should be saved.” Many people probably never think about donating organs, other than filling out the paper work for their drivers’ license.
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Some people scrape by barely enough to eat, living in a run-down shack, and sleeping on its dirt floor. These are the type of people willing to line up at hospitals to have organs removed just to pay off a little debt, buy food and clothing, or even pay for another family member’s operations. They are so willing to sell their kidney for around $1,000, but there’s a risk in donating in this procedure. More people than what you would think risk their health every day just for a little cash. Several studies show that a human can live a healthy, happy life with only one kidney. Those studies may not apply to those desperate people in the third world countries that live in the unsanitary environments, but most still take the risk. This is the best hope for these families to get money. Some people think that selling an organ is morally wrong. The desperate people in the third world countries would disagree. Not all morals are perfect reality …show more content…
The patient is given a new kidney, but the donor obtains nothing. The doctors and nurses are even paid for performing the operation. Of course the donor will have that heart-warming, inspirational sensation of helping another human being, but this isn’t always enough. In the perfect place, altruism would be enough, but in this day and time, money is the whole kit and caboodle. Most people would claim that authorizing the sale of organs will take advantage of the poorer people in the third world countries, but that’s already happening. The organ seller does usually collect most of the money promised, but it doesn’t make a dent on their financial struggles. The threat of a $50,000 fine and five years in prison (Finkel 26), the up-to-date ban is not successful in averting illegal organ sales and operations. The underprivileged families don’t need more harsh and rigorous punishments, on the contrary they need just the opposite. If organ sales were made lawful, it could be controlled and supervised by the government. By regulating this, education and details could be used in the application procedure. Regulation would guarantee that the seller is legitimately rewarded and they would know the health risks and precautions. In the illegal organ trade, surgeons accumulate most of the buyer’s money for putting their careers in danger and the brokers also receive a pretty hefty cut, but if this
Some people scrape by barely enough to eat, living in a run-down shack, and sleeping on its dirt floor. These are the type of people willing to line up at hospitals to have organs removed just to pay off a little debt, buy food and clothing, or even pay for another family member’s operations. They are so willing to sell their kidney for around $1,000, but there’s a risk in donating in this procedure. More people than what you would think risk their health every day just for a little cash. Several studies show that a human can live a healthy, happy life with only one kidney. Those studies may not apply to those desperate people in the third world countries that live in the unsanitary environments, but most still take the risk. This is the best hope for these families to get money. Some people think that selling an organ is morally wrong. The desperate people in the third world countries would disagree. Not all morals are perfect reality …show more content…
The patient is given a new kidney, but the donor obtains nothing. The doctors and nurses are even paid for performing the operation. Of course the donor will have that heart-warming, inspirational sensation of helping another human being, but this isn’t always enough. In the perfect place, altruism would be enough, but in this day and time, money is the whole kit and caboodle. Most people would claim that authorizing the sale of organs will take advantage of the poorer people in the third world countries, but that’s already happening. The organ seller does usually collect most of the money promised, but it doesn’t make a dent on their financial struggles. The threat of a $50,000 fine and five years in prison (Finkel 26), the up-to-date ban is not successful in averting illegal organ sales and operations. The underprivileged families don’t need more harsh and rigorous punishments, on the contrary they need just the opposite. If organ sales were made lawful, it could be controlled and supervised by the government. By regulating this, education and details could be used in the application procedure. Regulation would guarantee that the seller is legitimately rewarded and they would know the health risks and precautions. In the illegal organ trade, surgeons accumulate most of the buyer’s money for putting their careers in danger and the brokers also receive a pretty hefty cut, but if this