Organ Donation Ethics

The thought of being organ donor can be scary yet gratifying for some people and others it is last means for a close one to live. In my paper I will be discussing how moral ethics brought forth commercialization of organ donors. How in those centers advocates were put into help educate and protect the donor. How ethics also plays into protecting the mentally impaired and so they won’t be forced or denied a donor/transplant. What organs I learned that a living donor could donate from lungs to skin. There are standards that are set in place as to what conditions a living donor must possess in order to be considered for donating an organ.

Saying Yes to Being a Living Donor
While reading the article Transplant Living, I learned that about 6,000 living donations take place each year. Among most of those living donations happen among family members or between close friends while there are also some living donations that take place between people unknown to each other. There is a sense of pride and honor knowing that you are helping a person in dire need of a transplant
This came about due to the shortage of organs and organ trafficking. People began to monopolize others into “donating” their organs, and this was partially easy to do because of financial distress or they are forced to give an organ. In China 90% of organs came from the deceased prisoners. After the prisoners were executed the doctors harvested their organs and put them on the donor list. In 1999 China expanded their transplant medicinal practice and began to test the living prisoners and eventually categorized them. When a certain organ donation was needed, the prison system would have the prisoner executed and then harvest the organ; this is called “on-demand organ harvesting system”. (Trey, T., Caplan, A. L., & Lavee, J) This reminds me of the movie The