Persuasive Essay On Organ Sales

Organ Sales Imagine you are in the hospital and that you have been placed on life support because you are in need of a new kidney, heart, or liver. Would you be put on the national transplant list, hoping to get the life sustaining organ you need, or would you go look for someone willing the sell the organ you are in need of? People donate their bodies to science every day so that students can dissect them and hopefully learn something. There is also approximately 18 people who die every single day while waiting for an organ transplant (www.inpublicsafety.com, 2014). In 2014 there were over 100,000 names on the national transplant list. Each month another 2,000 names are added to this list (www.inpublicsafety.com, 2014). It would be very difficult to watch someone you love die because a match for organ donation could not be found. It would be even harder to watch that same loved one die because they purchased an organ off the black-market. Organ sales are dangerous and unethical due to the selling of diseased organs, high cost of the organ, and unsanitary conditions. The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA) bans the buying and selling of organs (www.medscape.org, 2003). The question is, since buying and selling organs is “illegal’ according to Senate Report, (www.medscape.org, 2003) why do people continue doing it? The national Organ
Some might consider these conditions to be filthy. Some places are like going into a hotel room, laying on the bed, and letting the doctor take the organ that is needed. There are inmates that are supposed to be on death row and have not been executed yet that are having organs removed without anesthesia (www.dailymail.co.uk, 2015). Organ transplants require very sanitary conditions so that the patient does not get an infection. Patients who receive a proper transplant have a higher survival and success