Organ transplantation has been a miraculous revolution in modern science. The ability to transfer an organ from one human to another has been an enormous blessing upon mankind. The process has allowed saving countless dying souls year by year. Organ transplantation is a surgical process by which healthy organs, donated by inviduals, are transplanted into a patient who is in critical need for a transplant. The operation is astounding and mesmerising, yet the problem is there has been a critical shortage in organ donations around the world which has leads to a drought of organ donations. Hundreds of thousands of patients are in an everlasting queue in hunt of an organ. Surgeons, researchers and government are left in frenzy on how to counter this pandemic. At stake are millions of lives who are in a perpetual wait which, disturbingly, may only be replenished by death.
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[7] "Of course we should have an opt-out scheme. What can be wrong with it? What are the cons of giving someone their life?" emphasises Clare Bolitho, a sixty three old donor who only a couple of years ago donated he kidney to save a fellow human beings life. Steve Gerard -a father of a daughter who passed away while waiting on lung transplant- highlights, "The biggest advantage of an opt-out system is that people don’t have to do anything. For those who don’t want to go down that route can fill a form in." Mr Gerard's daughter passed as a martyr as she donated her organs so someone else does not have to go through the pain her family went through. The chief executive of the British Heart foundation, Andrew Copson, shines light on the matter, " Religious objections for ‘respect for the dead’ are one thing, and people who have them will have their wishes respected, but saving lives in the here and now has to come first. By switching to an opt-out system, we cannot only save countless lives but end the black market for organ
The current UK law states …show more content…
[7] "Of course we should have an opt-out scheme. What can be wrong with it? What are the cons of giving someone their life?" emphasises Clare Bolitho, a sixty three old donor who only a couple of years ago donated he kidney to save a fellow human beings life. Steve Gerard -a father of a daughter who passed away while waiting on lung transplant- highlights, "The biggest advantage of an opt-out system is that people don’t have to do anything. For those who don’t want to go down that route can fill a form in." Mr Gerard's daughter passed as a martyr as she donated her organs so someone else does not have to go through the pain her family went through. The chief executive of the British Heart foundation, Andrew Copson, shines light on the matter, " Religious objections for ‘respect for the dead’ are one thing, and people who have them will have their wishes respected, but saving lives in the here and now has to come first. By switching to an opt-out system, we cannot only save countless lives but end the black market for organ