Noah Pierce English 12 - Shettles Argumentative Research Paper 19 March 2015 Organ Market The number of people who die each year due to a shortage of organs is increasing by eight percent each year. However there is an easy fix to this problem which would be a legal market for human organs. While many believe it is okay to sell human organs‚ others feel that selling organs is wrong because it is immoral. Selling organs should be legalized to save and improve lives. In this essay both sides
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process of organ serve. As we can inferred‚ there was also increasing in number of broker and black market. Besides‚ experts from the World Health Organization estimate 11‚000 illegal organ transactions took place in 2010 3-2. Illegal organ transplant tourism There is another difference to price of organs between countries. For example‚ price for kidney buyer in Saudi Arabia is $160‚000 and price for kidney
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“Alcoholics and Liver Transplants” (JAMA‚ March 13‚ 1991‚ Vol. 265‚ pp. 1299-1301). The authors‚ Carl Cohen and Martin Benjamin dissect the many arguments against giving liver transplants to those who abuse alcohol. Alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver‚ severe scarring due to the heavy use of alcohol is by far the major cause of end-stage liver disease. Cohen and Martin do not believe that someone that has induced this disease by alcohol abuse is no less deserving of a liver transplant than someone that
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"Central Intelligence Agency." CIA- The World Factbook. CIA‚ 24 Aug. 2012. Web. 1 Sept. 2012. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html>. “Kidney Transplant - NHS Choices."NHS Choices - Your health‚ your choices. NHS‚ n.d. Web. 5 Sept. 2012. <http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Kidney-transplant/Pages/Introduction.aspx>. "Committee of Experts on Trafficking in Human Organs‚ Tissues and Cells."47 Countries - 800 million citizens - Council of Europe. Council of Europe
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another person. Imagine that one of your loved ones are in the hospital… they’re very sick and you don’t know what is wrong. The doctor comes in and tells you that your loved one is having kidney failure and they will die unless they can get a transplant. There are over 101‚000 other people on a waiting list for an organ and over 55‚000 on the list for a kidney. Wouldn’t you give them a kidney if you could? How would you feel knowing that if they couldn’t get that kidney they would die? It hurts
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receive organ transplants. However‚ an average of 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can ’t take place because of the shortage of donated organs. Any one of those people might be someone you know. Today I’d like to talk to you about the need for organ donors in our area‚ second‚ how you can become an organ donor after you die‚ and finally‚ how your family and organ donor recipients benefit from your donation. People all over the world are in need of an organ transplant even people
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doctors believe that cloning is an advancement to help save more lives although specific organs or blood types have yet to be cloned and actually made available to the general medical community. Think about it. If someone desperately needed a liver transplant‚ with the aid of cloning technology‚ doctors would be able to clone that persons liver cells and produce a healthy‚ genetically matched liver thus saving that person’s life. In a way cloning could revolutionise the medical industry. While many
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Going hand in hand with the point of incentive‚ if organ donor compensation was allowed‚ the waiting list to receive an organ transplant would be shorter. If organ donor compensation was legalized‚ there would be an abundance more organs donated and more lives would be saved. For instance‚ less than 20% of American adults are registered as organ donors and only 50% of brain dead patients’ families agree to donate their organs (Healy 2). This number is staggeringly low and shows that the chance
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agonizing months or years on the transplant waiting list‚ who will get a second chance‚ because you made the selfless decision to be a donor. More than 120‚000 men‚ women and children currently need lifesaving organ transplants. Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant. In 2012‚ there were 14‚013 Organ Donors resulting in 28‚052 organ transplants. In 2012‚ more than 46‚000
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Imagine that someone needed an organ transplant. On the other hand‚ the doctor tells them that there is a shortage of human organs. However‚ the doctor says that there is a new breakthrough in technology‚ Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation is the transplantation of organs from one species to another. In spite of this‚ is it right to transplant these foreign organs into a human beings? The facts that will be stated will tell it is not. The reason being is because Xenotransplantation can come
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