The Pros And Cons Of Donating Organs

Across the United States, several companies are currently being investigated for abusing their position as cadaveric collecting agencies. These companies are freezing, rather than embalming, whole bodies, organs, and tissues and are transferring the products into an illicit international organ market. Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an investigation to unravel this market for organs, and what they found was astounding: Chicago was serving as a hub city for the transport of entire bodies and organs to both the illicit and licit markets. Specifically, two companies—Biological Resource Center and the Schiller Park Crematorium—are being accused of harvesting organs from bodies that were meant as donations to medical research.
It is unfathomable to consider that these trusted agencies are merely focused on profiteering, which raises …show more content…
But, because of the DDR, the doctors needed to wait for his natural death and could not extract vital organs because that would have, in effect, prematurely killed the man. The man, however, died without ever receiving the chance to donate his organs simply because the doctors had to comply with the DDR. Therefore, in practice, the DDR “limits the procurement of transplantable organs.” While society might find it morally wrong to allow an individual to alter the timing of their death, the government must consider the patient’s right to choose, and thus, move towards abandoning the DDR. Policymakers must recognize that the DDR effectively bolsters the black market for organ trade and highlights why the Chicago companies engaged in their immoral actions. To prevent additional companies from engaging in this illicit behavior, it is imperative that society eliminates the DDR, which will generate more usable organs and challenge the nation’s pressing organ