Deciding on Organ Transplant Priorities
Deciding on Organ Transplant Priorities
Thinking in terms of equality, all people should be able to get health care in matters of life and death. However, while there are some people who believe that terminally ill patients who have abused their bodies should not be eligible for organ transplants, some others feel that it is unfair to deny life-saving help to another human being. Anyway, other citizens are worried about society’s limited number of donor organs and limited economic resources.
On the one hand, some people think that most of the terminally ill are in general drug addicts, alcoholics or heavy smokers who are destined not to receive help. People agree that addicts would not have gotten sick if they had not abused their bodies. In addition, these kind of patients are not ignorant and they do know that not only one organ is damaged with the addiction, but also their general health condition. Also, a further reason to deny them medical treatment is that they might be persistent consumers and they would always be, so the organ transplant would be useless and the organ wasted.
On the other hand, some people feel that since we are all equal, we all deserve to enjoy the same rights. Everybody should be given an organ transplant in case they need it no matter their condition. There are two important reasons: the largest possible number of patients should be saved and they should be given a new opportunity to start again. Moreover, we should consider that most of the addicts are not always to blame since the reasons that may take them to addictions are unknown to us. They tend to excuse themselves by saying that alcohol, drugs or tobacco protects them from reality.
The last point to discuss is the scarce amount of people willing to donate their organs either because of personal believes such as religion, or because they are not aware of the great results that organ transplants may have. As a result, health
Thinking in terms of equality, all people should be able to get health care in matters of life and death. However, while there are some people who believe that terminally ill patients who have abused their bodies should not be eligible for organ transplants, some others feel that it is unfair to deny life-saving help to another human being. Anyway, other citizens are worried about society’s limited number of donor organs and limited economic resources.
On the one hand, some people think that most of the terminally ill are in general drug addicts, alcoholics or heavy smokers who are destined not to receive help. People agree that addicts would not have gotten sick if they had not abused their bodies. In addition, these kind of patients are not ignorant and they do know that not only one organ is damaged with the addiction, but also their general health condition. Also, a further reason to deny them medical treatment is that they might be persistent consumers and they would always be, so the organ transplant would be useless and the organ wasted.
On the other hand, some people feel that since we are all equal, we all deserve to enjoy the same rights. Everybody should be given an organ transplant in case they need it no matter their condition. There are two important reasons: the largest possible number of patients should be saved and they should be given a new opportunity to start again. Moreover, we should consider that most of the addicts are not always to blame since the reasons that may take them to addictions are unknown to us. They tend to excuse themselves by saying that alcohol, drugs or tobacco protects them from reality.
The last point to discuss is the scarce amount of people willing to donate their organs either because of personal believes such as religion, or because they are not aware of the great results that organ transplants may have. As a result, health