Organ Donation Ethics Essay

Organ donation has been an ethical debate for a long time. Organ donation is a process of giving away your organs to another person in need by an organ transplant. An organ transplant is an operation that puts a healthy organ from your body into another person’s body. One donor can save as many as 50 people. The organs that can be donated include the internal organs like the kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines and other organs like the skin, bone, bone marrow, cornea and many tissues. You can donate organs when you are living but also when you are dead. When you are living you can donate organs like the kidney’s or parts of the liver and the lung and very rarely the pancreas and intestines, you can also donate bone, bone marrow, many tissues and blood cells. When you are a deceased donor you can donate most of your organs in your body and many tissues. When people need an organ you have to wait on this long list in order to receive an organ, sometimes it could take years in order to find a match to your body. Many people want to be an organ donor but many people do not, that is why organ donation is an ethical debate.
Organ donation has the ability to save many lives. “Today, there are nearly 118,000 individuals waiting for an organ transplant to live healthier, more productive lives for some people with end-stage organ failure, it is truly a matter of life and …show more content…
There are Lots of hard ships especially if you are a deceased donor because your family has to wait to get the burial done and to move on but you will have to be hooked up to many machines in order to help make your organs last until the doctors can transplant your organs to the person needing the donation. Families who are already being hurt because a family member died shouldn’t have to wait and endure many days waiting for the organs to be donated it is rough on the family and also on the doctors to have to make the