Should Organ Donor Be Paid For Donating Organs?

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Organ donors should be paid for donating organs because, people will want to donate if there is money involved, they have gone through many surgeries and tests and have given a part of themselves to help someone else, they deserve to be paid. Another way could be to not have donors pay for the $15,000 to $30,000 (4) expense bill from the hospital.
Right now more than 119,000 people are on the waiting list for organ transplants and every 10 minutes another person is added, that's only 48% of the people that should be on the list. People aren't willing to donate their organs because they aren't benefiting from it, so if we pay organ donors than people will be more willing to give organs because they benefit from donating.

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