Cost Of Organ Donation Essay

1) Many of the people who receive organs have self-damaged their own organs such as by drug use or other irresponsible behaviors (eating patterns, sexual activity patterns, etc.). There are measures taken by the medical community to ensure that they're not engaged in these behaviors while they're waiting for an organ but that doesn't change the history of the behaviors or how the damage was done.
2) Most of the people will have shortened lifespans anyway even if they receive the organ.
3) Most of the people who receive organs will experience an array of complications which will reduce their quality of life and impose ongoing, often lifelong, financial costs.
4) The immediate and ongoing costs of transplanting organs is very high and that cost can often be spent better in other ways such as by improving health education and prevention, drug addiction treatment, neonatal care, nutrition, genetic research, artificial tissue research, etc.
This discrepancy in access would, to some extent, remain even if everyone were an organ donor.
6) Some people are afraid that less than full efforts might be made to resuscitate them if they are a known organ donor. For example, they're involved in an accident and then after brief efforts are made to resuscitate them they are left to die and their organs harvested even though if someone had tried a little harder they'd be alive. Although this fear is basically unfounded at least in the majority of the developed world, it is not entirely an unreasonable fear and it would have some legitimacy in some parts of the