Organ Donating Ethical Essay

Ethics is defined as “pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct”. Now that we know the definition for ethical, how can it be said that organ trade fits anywhere in that definition when there are so many unethical actions taking place to get a person a life saving organ. One can understand how great of a gift an organ can be for someone that will die without it, but how far should one go? Is one person’s life more important than another’s? No! Due to the lack of legal donations people have been forced to find another way to get what they or a family member needs. The black market is alive and well and it will continue to prey on the poor and favor the rich until monetary gain is eliminated for the act of donating an organ, the only thing that should be paid is the medical bills for the surgery; doing this will significantly lessen the need for …show more content…
This question is hardly ever pushed and therefore people do not take it as seriously as they should. In reality “122,427 people are waiting for an organ and 22 people will die each day waiting for one” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2015). The number of people on the national waiting list continues to grow, while rates of donation and transplant stagnate (2015). So although 79 people receive organ donation each day, which is still another 22 that die on the waiting lists, the more people that donate, than the more lives that can be saved. It is easy to sign up to be an organ donor, all a person has to do is go online to organdonor.gov and they can sign up through the state they live in. This is a simple thing that can change a person or a family’s life one day when the donor is no longer in need of their organs. There is no reason why one should not