Importance of Organ Donation Essay

Extended Response-Organ Transplants Part A Heart transplants are only available to those who have end stage heart disease and have tried all other options. It can also only be obtained by someone who has an expected life of at least 5 years post-transplant and who can potentially return to an active life. Anyone who suffers from cardiogenic shock, intractable symptomatic heart failure which cannot be treated, requires permanent mechanical cardiac support, has frequent discharges from an AICD or…

Putting Back the Integrity in Organ Transplantation The organ transplant process should be a life giving process that brings happiness and fulfillment in both parties. Instead there is a black cloud that hovers over the process due to the bad publicity organ traffickers have put on it. There is also a dread that once put on the transplant list a donor will not be found. According to Abouna (pg. 34), “In the US, one patient is added to the waiting list every 15 minutes, and in the year 2007,…

Saving Lives: One Organ at a Time Presently, there are over one hundred thousand individuals waiting for a vital organ transplant on the national waiting list. And according to the LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, a new name is added to that list every ten minutes. Unfortunately, society has fabricated many myths about organ donation, causing a myriad of potential organ donors to change their view on the concept. But the need for organ donors continues to rise with every day that passes.…

patients waiting each year for a kidney, (Giron, 2013). According to Jahromi, that is just a kidney, not including the heart, lungs, liver and many other organs needed (Jahromi, 2015). The waiting list increases every year, causing a dramatic shortage of organs. With Jahromi intention, he states that it leads to an increase in the black market organs, (Jahromi, 2015). Imagine having to wait for the rest of one’s life relying on another person to save another life. It is not fair for those who…

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…

Organ Sales Will Save Lives In the essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna Mackay, kidney failure is the main topic. In the thesis Mackay says “Government should not ban the sale of the human organs, they should regulate it.” It is supported by the evidence it will save lives. 350,000 people in America struggle with this situation each year. She also states that more people will be willing to give up their kidneys if it were legal. There are other ways like dialysis, which is a temporary…

December 2016 Organ Donation One of the greatest and earliest gift given from one human to another was an organ. Unknown to many, organ transplants have been recorded before Christ. By 800 B.C Indian doctors had likely begun grafting skin and this is also the start of numerous transplantation that take places later on (History.com Staff). This wonderful thing has happened since a very long time, but it seems as time goes by and along the rapid development of society, people’s needs for organ…

An Advanced Way to Solve Organ Shortage Every year in America, the number of people who need organ transplantations grows, so does the donation waiting list. As the organ shortage is becoming severe, the government is urgently trying to figure out a final solution. Among all current proposals, legalized organ sales have been attracting a lot of attentions. Proponents, like Joanna MacKay, have shown how legalized organ sales would significantly relieve the shortage and benefit both sellers and…

Shortages in organs available for a transplant continues to be a problem in the United States, even though the transplant of donated organs is completely safe. A person not registered as an organ donor may believe organ donation is against his or her religion or that it is necessary to donate organs while still living, but that is not the case. There are almost only benefits when it comes to registering to be an organ donor. To first understand why organ donation is important, it is necessary to…

Transplant tourism – how to tackle the problems? Introduction Transplant tourism has become popular in these years. The shortage of organs in patients' home country encourages the transplant tourism industry to expand quickly as patients can travel overseas to obtain a transplant (Nicolaides and Smith, 2009). However, more problems are coming up with the increasing demand for the transplant, and the problems should not be neglected. This report will first analyse the possible causes and effects…