What is your opinion on organ donation and transplant?

Question

Do you think it is morally right or wrong? Is living donation to risky? Is the outcome worth the risk?

Answer 1

Organ donation is a moral obligation. One deceased donor can save up to 8 lives and help many others.

Living donation is a matter for individual choice, modern screening and surgical technologies minimises any risk to either party.

Answer 2

It is a bandaid solution for real sources of the problem. There is at least a forty percent chance of rejection and the immune system of the transplant receiver must be weakened by the use of immunosuppressant drugs. They may very well need further treatment later on. They run the risk of infection and further disease.

If someone is on renal dialysis and gets a kidney transplant, they only receive one and there is still a set of underlying conditions not being treated. Why didn't the medical establishment and the health care industry do more to prevent such a need? Would you wait till someone got full-blown AIDS to start treatment with antiretroviral drugs? No, you would start treating them right away. If AZT is given to someone during the first six months after possible exposure, the virus may disappear or never develop. What ever happened to early intervention, prevention and the treatment model? People are more than a set of symptoms and self-implosion leading to death is not what you wait around for, so that doctors can bill huge amounts to health care insurance companies for these surgeries.

As far as morality goes, there is a province in Canada attempting to pass legislation to force all drivers to submit to organ donation. They 'assume' voluntary donations. Since when did the state own my body or anyone else's? If there is only a 1 in 26,000 chance of finding a match, then how is drastically increasing the number going to help? Biological predetermination by genetics has created a natural environment in which no matter how many donors are available, there is still only a 1 in 26,000 chance of finding someone.

If a woman has hepatitis and is near the end of her disease, why give her a liver transplant? What about a newborn born without developed organs who has only a thirty percent chance at survival and not much chance of a good, productive, happy life free of pain and disease? Who deserves the liver more? Why didn't the doctor do more to help them at the beginning? I am not blaming the woman, but if she had received interferon or been on a different diet and health maintenance plan, what would have happened? A high percentage of people with hepatitis engage in I.V. drug use or other hard drug use and may continue to do so after initial infection with hepatitis. It is a lifestyle and health issue, not just an issue of organ donation.

Besides, what if the person's kidneys or lungs are so damaged, they can't be harvested? Who decides who gets what? Where do you draw the line? What if the family opposes it? What if they want the person on life support or he or she has a living will or doesn't? What about the appointment of power-of-attourney and estate issues? The state has no right to intervene.

One has to find a match within one's family. Medical and biological history is important here. The best donor is a relative, period. However, if a girl is twenty-two and plans on having a couple of kids, she will need both kidneys and in the normal process of life, she will need her pancreas, her entire liver, lungs and bone marrow. They are part of her body, not someone else's.

You cannot subject other people to harm for someone else's sake. Like the people who have children to find a bone marrow donor for their elder child with leukemia, they are doing something morally wrong. One child is not to be the saviour of another and should not be subjected to painful bone marrow transplants and the taking of blood for the sake of another. The child must be loved in his or her own right and wanted the same.

You can get a hepatitis vaccine that prevents contraction of the disease for up to five years and it offers some degree of protection afterwards. If someone takes certain drugs after possible infection, they may never develop hepatitis or at least be able to reduce symptoms. Cholera and malaria are major killers in the Third World and are completely preventable. Why don't they educate Africans about HIV/AIDS and hand out condoms and try to combat drug use and prostitution? Getting someone into rehab and offering them a clean, pharmeceutical version of drugs through harm reduction is better than condemning them to a life of addiction and HIV/hepatitis. That is why we have needle exchanges. Treatment for drug use is 30 percent theh cost of incarceration on drug possession convictions.

Answer 3

If you die and can donate your organs, then you should definitely donate them. The only other choices are to bury or cremate them. Over 93,000 Americans are on the national transplant waiting list, and most of them will die waiting.

If you are willing to accept a transplant if you ever need one, then you should register to donate your organs when you die. It's the only fair thing to do. But in the United States, most organs are given to people who haven't agreed to donate their own organs when they die. This is unfair, and it's one of the reasons there is such a large shortage of organs.

If you want your organs to be given to other organ donors, please join LifeSharers at www.lifesharers.org. Membership is free and open to all. There is no age limit, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.

Live organ donation is a wonderful thing to do. The risks to the donor are low, and the benefit to the donee is large. We wouldn't need so many live organ donors if Americans weren't burying or cremating 20,000 transplantable organs every year.

Answer 4

I think donating organs is a very good idea. What a generous gesture to make. If I ever need one, I'll be grateful.

Answer 5

I totally agree with organ donations. They do save lives.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Its a wonderful thing because someone is going to live, imagine the family whose important member is saved. IT is a noble act.

Answer 8

If its good for human is ok with God too

Answer 9

i'm for it......