Selling Organs Many people are dying each day because of the lack of organs available. Waiting lists can be as long as 106‚000 people. On an average 17 patients in need of transplants die each day. Is this fair to the families or is selling organs a better option? What are the benefits of organ selling and should it be made legal? By legalizing organ selling we would be saving lives. People sell organs on the black market every day; the downfall to this is that the surgeons that remove
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ORGAN DONATION INTRODUCTION Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body‚ from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. Transplantable organs and tissues are removed in a surgical procedure following a determination‚ based on the donor ’s medical and social history‚ of which are suitable for transplantation. Such procedures are termed allotransplantations‚ to distinguish them from xenotransplantation‚ the transfer of animal
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Great advances in the science of organ transplantation have made it possible for many lives to be saved from conditions that would have otherwise been considered fatal. Anyone between the ages of 18 and 60 and in good general health can be organ donors. Thanks to these scientific advances‚ living donors are now able to donate entire kidneys and portions of other regenerative organs such as the intestine‚ liver‚ lung‚ and pancreas. Full portions of these organs as well as others‚ such as bones‚
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for organ donors and it’s very simple to become one and help save a life. Transplantation gives hope to thousands of people with organ failure and helps provide new life for those living on borrowed time. Introduction “Life is like an onion‚ you peel it off one layer at a time‚ and sometimes you weep.” (Carl Sandburg) By this time tomorrow‚ eighteen people would have died because they did not receive a lifesaving transplant. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing
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Market for Human Organs Richard Knox‚ a National Public Radio reporter (Richard Knox)‚ states‚ “About 75‚000 Americans are on the waiting list for kidney transplants. But in the coming year‚ just 18‚000 will get them.” Unfortunately‚ the transplant list is only growing with each passing year. This means that many people will die on the waiting list and those who are lucky enough to get to surgery may not be strong enough to survive the operation because they have been without vital organs for so long
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United States‚ a patient who wants an organ transplant from a cadaverous donor must become part of an elaborate nationwide organ distribution system. This system‚ known collectively as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)‚ is operated by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)‚ an independent nonprofit organization working under contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. *Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a
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legal to sell organs to transplant patients. How many live could be saved if this was allowed in the United States? An average of eighteen people die each day waiting for transplants that can’t happen because due to the shortage of donated organs. Every life that could be saved is extremely important and an effort needs to be made to preserve these lives. The sale of human organs should be legalized‚ solving the shortage of transplant organs in the United States. The history of organ transplants
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Backgroung of organ donationin HK Despite medical advancement‚ organ transplant has become the only hope for some patients with organ failure in order to live on. However‚ the limited supply from donation of transplantable organs has made some 2000 local patients and their family waiting desperately‚ as the patients count their days in the fight against death. It is more regretful that many patients would die before the right organ match comes. To shorten patients’ waiting time for organ transplant
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of available donor organs provides little to no hope for patients wishing to have a chance at new life. According to the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance‚ there were 79‚466 patients on the U.S. National Waiting List as of January 1‚ 2002‚ with only 6‚148 donors in the country that year. In response to the organ shortage‚ scientists have made recent advances in transplant technology with the development of two new types of organ replacement: xenotransplantation and artificial organ replacement; the latter
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Proposal Argument June 20‚ 2013 US Legislature Two Deaths or One Life The donation of organs after death is not often a common topic; however‚ it is a problem that needs addressing. Organ transplantation has become a solution to organ failure‚ but the rate of failing organs is drastically higher than that of the donors. 118‚466 (OPTN: Donor Data‚ Web) people are currently waiting on life-saving organs‚ and every ten minutes (The Need is Real‚ Web) another person is added to that list. It is
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