Persuasive Essay On Organ Donation

Each year there are countless of people that die every day due to the lack of organ donors that there is. There is a huge debate of whether or not it is ethical to pay for organ donations. In the United States there is an immense shortage of organs and there are numerous deaths that are occurring, and there has not been any good solution to fixing this problem. What needs to be taken into consideration is if it is ethical to start paying people that donate, if it is decided that paying for organs is okay than we would then need to consider what The National Kidney Foundation says that they “appose all efforts to legalize payments for human organs for use in transplantation”, they are opposed because they feel that it is dehumanizing and is not something that they are willing to do. On the other hand paying for organs can be a positive thing, because it can be incentive for people to be more motivated to donate, it can be a factor in decreasing the black market, and by doing that it can change who the donors are. When you donate blood, semen, and eggs there usually an incentive for your donation, organs aren’t that different to …show more content…
The waiting lists for organ donation especially for kidney/s just keeps increasing and people continue to need organs. If there is not a change in motivating people to donate then as a society we are continuing to let people die. According to Gregory, because Iran has now legalized the payment of organs there is not an extensive list of people who need kidney donations. The effect of not having an extensive waiting list the death rate in Iran of those patients who needed organs is completely lowered. However back to what Gregory says there is an enormous amount of people that are dying just waiting for a donation. If we do what Iran is doing we just might diminish the waiting list here in the United States as