Essay On Shortage Of Organ Donation

People are dying waiting to receive an organ transplant due to long waiting lists. There are several policies for a person to get on an organ donor list and regulations that could make a person think twice before donating their organs, especially if they see that a person could achieve monetary gain from it. People that are in need for an organ donation might see the rules and regulations to receive an organ donation very hard to accomplish and might think they can benefit from buying an organ in the black market or a country where selling and buying of organs is legal. The United States is one of the many countries in where the selling of organs is illegal, due to the government’s necessity to protect the lower classes from taking advantage of. …show more content…
According to Ahmad and Iftikhar (2016), “On average, 22 patients die each day while waiting for a transplant” (p. 25). The shortage of organ donation is a crisis that the world is going through and that the government needs to find a better solution for it in order to prevent people from opting for other ways of getting the organ transplant they need, such as getting involve in the black market where organs are sold and the transplant might occur in a dangerous and unsanitary place. It would be difficult to tell where an organ sold in the black market came from and who it belonged to. The selling of organs in the black market or in countries where is considered legal is not the solution to solve the shortage of organ donation. Legalizing organ sales could give way to worst things in this world, such as higher crime rates. Selling organs is immoral because saving a life is an altruistic act that should not be paid for, it creates disadvantages for lower classes, and creates a higher opportunity for