Financial Incentives on Organ Donation

More than 100,000 men, women and children in need of life-saving organ transplants, every 10 minutes another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list and averages of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs. (donatelife.net) Organ transplants are very important because they replace the damaged organ and help the body function once again. There are still huge shortages of organs, even after awareness and other ways of educating the public. Some Americans are open to donating but many more are against it or unaware of the process which leaves many without organs and dying every day. The ongoing debate is whether to give financial incentives to organ donors to promote organ donation which would put a price on human parts but also save thousands more lives. The Government should give financial incentives to promote organ donation so as to save thousands of lives, to erode the black market and to better improve the flawed system we have today for organ transplant. By giving financial incentives for organ donation, the number of deaths would decrease immensely and whether we like it or not, in today’s society, people are always looking for an opportunity to make money. People will see the black market as an opportunity to earn money easily and maybe even end up killing innocent people to get access to organs. Once when I was in Los Angles on vacation, my family and I saw people actually selling organs behind buildings near the beach. I did not know of the black market back then, but I found it interesting, wanting to be a doctor, and wanted to see the organs. There they were, in a big white tub, hearts and livers. What surprised me was that people were actually interested in the organs and wanted to buy them. Like the people on the beach, many others are selling organs to those in grave need for the organ. With financial incentives, the donor can get money or a benefit like tax reduction, while someone receives an organ and lives.