Arguments Against Organ Donation

There too many deaths occurring in the United States. One of those type of deaths include organ failure. People who wait on a list to be given a new organ. The list gets longer and longer every year and people die in result of the length of the list. As NBC13.com news points out “everyday seventeen people die waiting for organ transplants.”People are truly waiting to die. These deaths could simply be prevented by having a system in place that could provide a service to these helpless individuals. According to this same site, there are 120,000 people still waiting for organs, nationwide. But when it comes down to the issue of free trade of human organs, the majority of American citizens will consider it a controversial and ethical issue. There …show more content…
Organ donation for transplantation has become altruistic worldwide. All organ donations have become altruistic, meaning that there are no financial incentives to people who are willing to have their organs or organs of their deceased family members used for transplants. During the past two decades, advances in immunosuppressive therapy has led to greater success in transplantation and to increased numbers of patients on transplant waiting lists. Instead of donating organs people can start selling them it could potentially become as charitable as donating. People could gain a little cash from it. Besides that America has one of the highest waiting list besides China for organ transplants. There are not enough donations to extinguish the growing waiting list. The shortage of transplant organs is a major worldwide public health problem. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, there are approximately 123,000 patients on transplant waiting lists in the US and around 300,000 patients waiting for an organ transplant in China (The Economist