1 Organ Transplants [Type the company name] Assignment 1:Commercialization of Organ Transplants Commercialization of Organ Transplants Commercializing the sale of transplant organs has become a popular topic of discussion within the last few years. I was surprised that in my beginning research I found that a lot of people are for the commercial sale of organs to patients who need them and actually believe that it has the potential to become something that could change the way we look at organ transplants. R R Kishore wrote in his paper, Human organs, scarcities, and sale: morality revisited,To many the process may sound iniquitous and even sinful but, in fact, it is fair and natural and is consistent with normal human behaviour. The back and forth argument about whether or not the sale of human organs is a moral issue has many positions and points of view, however seems to be split between those who feel it is a natural solution that goes along with human nature and those who feel it is degrading and unethical and goes against equality for the human race. From my research I have been able to find out about the different practices of organ sales. Most of the times when people think about organ sales they most often associate it with the cases of a person who is in need of money and sells a kidney to another person who needs it. However I have learned through research that there are many other scenarios. One (in countries where the prior consent of the deceased is required for cadaveric organ donation) is to pay people living now for rights over their body after death. Another (in countries where the consent of relatives is required for cadaveric organ donation) is to pay relatives for transplant rights over their recently deceased loved ones' bodies(Garzon, 2012). Going into this assignment I didn’t really have a set side that I was on when it came to this topic. However after reading many articles on the subject I was able to better form a solid opinion. After gaining a better understanding of the subject overall I have come to the belief that selling organs is not morally wrong; at least not in most ways. A great deal of good could come out of the commercialization of organ sales. There are also many issues with patients waiting on transplants that could be remedied if organs could be freely sold. Annually, 300,000 people receive organtransplantsworldwide.Noteveryone who needs a transplant receivesone, and there remains a surplus ofpatients waiting to receive an organ. Every year this number increases (Wilkinson, 1998). Some of the increasing number of people dying during the wait for an organ could be improved with this simple change. However, even though the death rate of patients waiting on an organ keeps increasing and is a very big problem it is not the only problem that needs to be fixed. Physicians mustchoosebetweenpatientswhenallocating organs-some get organs and some are refused. As a result, patients who feelthe.

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Organ Transplants
[Type the company name]
Assignment 1:Commercialization of Organ Transplants
Commercialization of Organ Transplants
Commercializing the sale of transplant organs has become a
popular topic of discussion within the last few years. I was
surprised that in my beginning research I found that a lot of
people are for the commercial sale of organs to patients who
need them and actually believe that it has the potential to
become something that could change the way we look at organ
transplants. R R Kishore wrote in his paper, Human organs,
scarcities, and sale: morality revisited,To many the process may
sound iniquitous and even sinful but, in fact, it is fair and
natural and is consistent with normal human behaviour. The
back and forth argument about whether or not the sale of human
organs is a moral issue has many positions and points of view,
however seems to be split between those who feel it is a natural
solution that goes along with human nature and those who feel
it is degrading and unethical and goes against equality for the
human race.
From my research I have been able to find out about the
different practices of organ sales. Most of the times when
people think about organ sales they most often associate it with
the cases of a person who is in need of money and sells a kidney

2. to another person who needs it. However I have learned through
research that there are many other scenarios. One (in countries
where the prior consent of the deceased is required for
cadaveric organ donation) is to pay people living now for rights
over their body after death. Another (in countries where the
consent of relatives is required for cadaveric organ donation) is
to pay relatives for transplant rights over their recently
deceased loved ones' bodies(Garzon, 2012).
Going into this assignment I didn’t really have a set side that I
was on when it came to this topic. However after reading many
articles on the subject I was able to better form a solid opinion.
After gaining a better understanding of the subject overall I
have come to the belief that selling organs is not morally
wrong; at least not in most ways.
A great deal of good could come out of the commercialization
of organ sales. There are also many issues with patients waiting
on transplants that could be remedied if organs could be freely
sold. Annually, 300,000 people receive
organtransplantsworldwide.Noteveryone who needs a transplant
receivesone, and there remains a surplus ofpatients waiting to
receive an organ. Every year this number increases (Wilkinson,
1998). Some of the increasing number of people dying during
the wait for an organ could be improved with this simple
change. However, even though the death rate of patients waiting
on an organ keeps increasing and is a very big problem it is not
the only problem that needs to be fixed. Physicians
mustchoosebetweenpatientswhenallocating organs-some get
organs and some are refused. As a result, patients who feelthey
can no longer wait for an organ, and can afford the increased
cost, mayturn to the black market for organs.The problems
caused by this black market are increasingly international as
people with funds travel between countries to search for needed
organs (Wilkinson, 1998).These are only two of a growing
number of problems in the organ transplant community.
In the grand scheme of this part of our community the bad
points and issues are outweighing the people that doctors are

3. able to save in time and that directly goes against the
Utilitarianism theory that states: a doctrine that the useful is the
good and that the determining consideration of right conduct
should be the usefulness of its consequences; specifically : a
theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible
balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the
greatest number (Webster, 2003). Right now the good and the
bad in this case are very unbalanced, but the solution is staring
us all in the face. Because of the shortage of organ availability
doctors must choose who to do the transplant and essentially
save by weighing there communal worth. If we are going to talk
about the moral rightness of this whole situation then choosing
who should live and who should die based on material wealth
and communal background is the truly immoral part of all of
this.
With the billions of people in this world it isn’t as if we don’t
have enough organs for transplants however only about 15
percent of those people donate their organs. Enough organs
exist to make substantial inroads into reducing, if not
completely eliminating, the organ deficit. The problem is that
most systems for acquiring and distributing organs are woefully
inadequate. That people die every day of incurable disease is an
awful truth. However, it is unacceptable that there are needless
deaths from curable diseases when there is a potentially
available supply of the materials (in the case of transplant--
organs) that would eliminate these needless deaths (Wilkinson,
1998).
In conclusion selling organs is not going against any real moral
code. If anything the commercialization of organ transplants
would be working with human nature. Preservation is one of the
most basic traits that we acquire as humans. It is only morally
and ethically right to do all we can to come up with a solution
that will save the lives of many people now and in the future.
We all would like to think that people would want to donate
organs such as kidneys to friends and family members if it was
inside their power to do so; however that is rarely the case. It is

4. an unfair thing for a patient to have to beg friends and family
for a kidney, or die while waiting for one. The one approach
that will really change the position of the debaters and end the
waiting for so many is to end the ban on sale of organs and
create a legal market for them.
Works Cited
Garzon, D. (2012). The sales of human organs. In Retrieved
from http://prezi.com/k2j44fiz6-pv/the-sales-of-human-organs/
Kishore, R. (2004). Retrieved from
http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/6/362.full
Wilkinson, S. (1998). Retrieved from
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/organs-sale/
Webster. (2003). Retrieved from http://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/utilitarianism