Organ Donation
Organ donation should not be made compulsory
No It Shouldn 't Be Organ donation should not be compulsory because people have such little control of what happens to them in their lives, they should be able to control what happens to their bodies after death. There are many reasons, some religious, why a person would not want to donate their organs and those should be respected.
Why Organ Donation Should be Made Compulsory
Posted: 15/12/2011 00:00
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Imagine that tomorrow, through a series of unexpected and unfortunate events involving the collapse of the euro, some desperate eurocrats and a P&O ferry, you end up dying in hospitable. You will probably be looking forward to a quiet end as you depart this veil of tears, dignified in death, etc etc. You would be wrong; the NHS watchdog has called for your doctor to be legally required to interrupt your last moments. Your doctor should, according the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, ask whether after you 're dead, he can have a rummage around inside to see if there are any organs anyone else might want. This is wrong. He shouldn 't have to ask.
Compulsory organ donation may seem somewhat extreme but every year a thousand people die waiting for an organ transplant. That ghastly number, the number of those who die needlessly, is only increasing. They die because others neglect to do the right thing. Negligence is a crime.
As a society we accept that there are a lot of things the state can legitimately ask its citizens to do; they range from the annoying - not littering, to the angering - income tax, to the ultimate sacrifice of being conscripted to
No It Shouldn 't Be Organ donation should not be compulsory because people have such little control of what happens to them in their lives, they should be able to control what happens to their bodies after death. There are many reasons, some religious, why a person would not want to donate their organs and those should be respected.
Why Organ Donation Should be Made Compulsory
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Imagine that tomorrow, through a series of unexpected and unfortunate events involving the collapse of the euro, some desperate eurocrats and a P&O ferry, you end up dying in hospitable. You will probably be looking forward to a quiet end as you depart this veil of tears, dignified in death, etc etc. You would be wrong; the NHS watchdog has called for your doctor to be legally required to interrupt your last moments. Your doctor should, according the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, ask whether after you 're dead, he can have a rummage around inside to see if there are any organs anyone else might want. This is wrong. He shouldn 't have to ask.
Compulsory organ donation may seem somewhat extreme but every year a thousand people die waiting for an organ transplant. That ghastly number, the number of those who die needlessly, is only increasing. They die because others neglect to do the right thing. Negligence is a crime.
As a society we accept that there are a lot of things the state can legitimately ask its citizens to do; they range from the annoying - not littering, to the angering - income tax, to the ultimate sacrifice of being conscripted to
Links: * Free Lesson Plans Free interactive lesson plan ideas for K-12 teachers. Join ePals today www.ePals.com/join Ethics * Numerous religious groups, including Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and others, allow organ donation as a way of expressing and acting on compassion, according to Transplant for Life. Organs Needed * Without organ donation, current demand would go unanswered for kidneys, hearts, lungs, pancreases, livers, intestines, skin, bone, bone marrow, and corneas, according to the National Institutes of Health. Disparity * The unanswered need is huge. Currently, the list of candidates for transplants in the U.S. exceeds 105,000 while the number of transplants that actually occurred from January through November 2009 fell below 27,000, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Read more: What Is the Importance of Organ Donation? | eHow.comhttp://www.ehow.com/facts_5994889_importance-organ-donation_.html#ixzz2OwFozHiA