Research Summary: Who Holds The Deed To Your Body

English 101A
Melissa Long
25 September, 2011 Who Holds the Deed to YOUR Body? The sale of organs on the black market is a huge problem in our society today. It is immoral and needs to be more heavily monitored by the government. I once knew a women with three small children to support unfortunately, her husband was shot and he died. She was left with the three small children and had no way to support them, and no one to help her. When she was presented with the opportunity to sell her organs; to make money and thus be able to better care for her children, she jumped at the chance to sell her organs. She was promised it was going to be a quick procedure, painless and she would have no recovery
Selling your organ or organs is a crime and it involves several people; the recruiter that finds the vulnerable victim, the transporter who knows how to deliver the organs to the doctor, doctor hospital or clinic. Perhaps many other people belong in this line of criminals trying to take advantage of the poor. People will go to extreme measures to save their families. Perhaps you were wondering what do they get compensated for selling their most valuable thing a person can own. Can one really put a dollar amount on an irreplaceable organ that comes out of your body? Unfortunately these victims do not understand that they are the losers in this transaction. The winners are the people getting the transaction to happen. “The middle men” these middle men do not stop to think of what the consequences could possibly be or the harm done to these victims and their love ones. There only thinking of the money that is going into their pockets or huge bank accounts (Caplan
There are a group of people that feel selling organs should be legalized, they think well perhaps one person might be close to death and if he or she sells a healthy body part before he or she dies they would be able to save another life. However the way the system works now elderly people, homeless people, down syndrome or mentally challenged children or people could be unknowingly cohorts to give up their organs just to save a rich person’s life. This rich person could be near the end of his life; but because his rich he thinks perhaps I could get an organ and live another year or two. He is not thinking where these organs come from. Also there is the possibility that there is a very well-off person that needs a new liver. But he needs a new liver because he spent his entire life as an alcoholic. He may even get a new liver and then he continues drinking and would be dead in two months. Anyway because of the consequences of his continuing off to abuse his liver. On the other side of the cons of the legalization of organ transplants perhaps there is a child with liver cancer that will die unless he gets a transplant. There are many humanitarian in the world who would before their life is over would wish to give up their own body parts to save a