Anotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography Working Thesis: Organ Donors should be able to have the right to choose if their organs after death will be donated to another without any complications even if they die of brain death or euthanasia, inside or outside a medical facility, as well as laws should be put in place or an alternative method stating that their wishes no matter what the family thinks, due to ethical or moral issues, should be honored.
Organs are going to waste every year because not enough people are donating their organs. Many people choose to donate but their family members decide not to let them donate after they pass away due to the situation they are in. Different cultures agree that organ transplantation is a good act of kindness and many don’t disagree with it. The cultures only disagree with donation due to a vegetative state as being morally and ethically wrong. Many believe that a person in a vegetative state will come back to them but in reality they are brain dead and will never be able to function again. In this situation it draws many moral and ethical issues. Some say they are still living and will feel everything if they donate their organs. Others say in such a situation active euthanasia might be effective. These organs can save many other lives because millions of people are in need of an organ transplant. Family members have a say in whether those organs are donated but the decision shouldn’t be left to just them the patient’s wishes should still be honored after they are gone. The families are morally and ethically affected after their loved ones pass away and this can also cloud judgment. More organs could also be donated if we took into account the people who don’t die in a medical facility but also the ones who die outside. We need to improve the way the system is for donations so that many more lives can be saved. In the articles, they give me information that relates to each sub issues of morals and ethics as well as it gives me the
Organs are going to waste every year because not enough people are donating their organs. Many people choose to donate but their family members decide not to let them donate after they pass away due to the situation they are in. Different cultures agree that organ transplantation is a good act of kindness and many don’t disagree with it. The cultures only disagree with donation due to a vegetative state as being morally and ethically wrong. Many believe that a person in a vegetative state will come back to them but in reality they are brain dead and will never be able to function again. In this situation it draws many moral and ethical issues. Some say they are still living and will feel everything if they donate their organs. Others say in such a situation active euthanasia might be effective. These organs can save many other lives because millions of people are in need of an organ transplant. Family members have a say in whether those organs are donated but the decision shouldn’t be left to just them the patient’s wishes should still be honored after they are gone. The families are morally and ethically affected after their loved ones pass away and this can also cloud judgment. More organs could also be donated if we took into account the people who don’t die in a medical facility but also the ones who die outside. We need to improve the way the system is for donations so that many more lives can be saved. In the articles, they give me information that relates to each sub issues of morals and ethics as well as it gives me the
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