I don't know if I am pro or con on this issue, I am just researching a paper that I am writing and came across a journal article on the subject. My paper is not on this subject, I'm just curious. The fact is that the demand for organs is growing exponentially, yet the supply is not keeping up. Money is a motivator for almost anyone, and perhaps you could opt out of the financial incentive if you feel wierd about it. Make no mistake about it, lots of money is made by people who harvest/transport and transplant said organ, but should it also be given to the source? Just curious on your thoughts regarding this. Let me know what you think...
2007-04-09 09:29:52 · 7 answers · asked by ♥austingirl♥ 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Purchasing an organ in the United States is illegal.
In countries that do allow pay to the donor the donors are generally very poor, and what they get is a pittance compared to what they have to go through. Additionally, the follow-care the donor needs is very poor, and many die with months of the transplant due infection and other surgical complications.
Now, that being said -- my father in law whom I adored died waiting for a heart transplant, and at that time I would have sold my soul to the devil to find a way to convince a family to donate a brain dead loved ones organs. I can understand people's desperation, but I cannot condone the purchase of organs because it puts the "haves" in a position that the "have nots" cannot be in, the rich would be getting organs sooner even if they were in less need than the poor simply because they could afford to buy one.
I think the problem is that organ donation is poorly understood and not well understood. Money needs to be put in to education for the general public.
2007-04-09 09:39:22 · answer #1 · answered by Susie D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am against it.
Organ transplants that allow the donor to remain alive (kidney) should be a gift. However, the black market is providing these mainly from those in impoverished countries like India, Cambodia, and Africa.
Organ transplants like the lungs, and heart, which require the donor to be brain dead, but alive through medical devices should NEVER EVER be paying for the organs. Think about it. You're in a coma, on life support, and they want to harvest your organs. Come on, it's a hard enough decision for the surviving family to say yes, take my loved one off medical devices and give organs to another. It's playing God with your most loved ones. To add payment to it is very similar to the Bible story when Judas received 30 coins for Jesus.
Lastly, my Dad was a recipient of a lung transplant. The medical community highly over rates it. I meet many transplant recipients from heart to cornea and all in-between. Medical science is more fascinated with the 'glory' of doing this work, but focus's less on the psychological changes in their patients and overall well being. Knowledge without wisdom. But this is another novel.
2007-04-09 16:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is unethical, is used dishonestly ( giving little and selling for much) and it CLEARLY exploits the poor !! I have seen this happen in many other poor countries,,and China itself was just caught stealing them from teens in trouble with the law...
Organ donations are just going to be impossible with the ABUSES that have happened over them. Eventually these unethical ones that EXPLOIT otheres for them,,will HURT the ones that need them when folks die...
I am one that opted against because of the greediness behind it all. NOT the people needing them,( unless the family is rich and cold hearted) ,THOSE that can get them and SELL THEM for big bucks and had only given 3000 for a kidney ! This person made over 50,000 dollars,,
Not to mention the fact that my sister died for lack of one because of TOTAL NEGLECT and prejudices of the DR's.
2007-04-09 17:00:36 · answer #3 · answered by fivefootnuttinhuny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Doctors charge and so do the hospitals and the drug companies charge, and the patient and insurance companies pay. Why do they expect the donor to give his organs for free. I think they should be paid or pay the family at the donors death. I am a non doner and I wont donate my family for other to profit from.
2007-04-09 16:39:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some conservative Representatives in one of the Carlina states is trying to past a law so inmates can give up a organ for time off their sentence.
2007-04-09 16:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would be like selling a pint of blood. We'd see an increase in 1 kidney drug addicts.
2007-04-09 16:42:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
only the poor will donate organs........would you mind seeing an industry that further exploits the poor?....not me, i think they have enough problems
2007-04-09 16:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋