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transplant becomes available. Cadaverous kidney transplants are usually from the old and the sick and do not last nearly as long as a live kidney donation. Accidents are another major source for a live donation. Most countries have laws forbidding organ sales, which make the odds of getting a healthy, living kidney, are slim. However, the wealthy can afford the black market costs involved. The poor, who are in dire circumstances themselves, are more than willing to sell one of their kidneys to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When a loved one dies, there are many things that can be done with the body. There is the choice of embalmment for a funeral, cremation, organ donation, or donating the body to science. It is apparent what happens when the body is embalmed, cremated, or the organs are donated to save a life, but there are endless possibilities for what happens to a body donated to science. So, what exactly happens when someone’s body is used to further scientific research? This question is exactly what Mary…

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…

Joanna Mackay’s essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives speaks for itself. It is what the world has been going through for more than two decades up to this point. The shortage within the supply of organs, in this case, Kidneys. Kidneys are at a high demand not just domestically but internationally and that is where the problem began to get uncontrollable. In the year 2000, 2,583 Americans died while waiting for a Kidney transplant. While internationally the number sat right around 50,000 people. With…

Organ Transplants Morgan Robinson Organ Transplants become more and more popular every day. There are many ways that people spread the word about organ transplants. St[a]. Rita's is a foundation that helps people make the decision of being an organ donor. People all over the world use this foundation for helping them make a huge decision that could possibly be life changing. Organ donning has become more popular in the last three years than it has ever been. This is due to the…