Ethics Of Organ Donation

Objectives:
The importance of increasing the consent rate of organ donation as many countries are trying their maximum effort to boost the rate as the need is dramatically increasing annually.
The presumed consent vs. the explicit consent and the impact of both of these polices in the rate of the country, in addition to the individual in regards to respecting citizen’s belief, thought, desire, and value.
Spreading the justice and preventing any discriminatory preference by eradicating those discrimination behaviors.
The ethical concerns regarding the types of donors by restricting and limiting several specific type of people in concerns to their health and life.
How to improve the practice toward organ donation by putting certain criteria

However, in order to do this procedure you need an organ from an eligible donor. Nowadays, the number of patients in the waiting list are remarkably and dramatically growing despite the huge number of the transplanted organs that being performed annually. Therefore, several countries and organizations around the world are trying their maximum effort to accomplish a high rate of organ donors to save patients’ live. Consequently, those organizations attempt to create numerous different policies and organizing different campaigns to achieve the needs. For instance, some countries legislate an opt-out system such as the presumed consent law where the deceased is going to be a donor unless the refusal decision is made before death. Nevertheless, there are different people with distinctive thought and religious belief that have a significant influence in being unwillingness to provide organs despite whatever laws is attempted by the government since its conflicting with their belief and thought. Therefore, even if the country uses its authorization in legislating a policy that is not respecting peoples’ opinion in different circumstances according to their belief, desires, or values, the people will not donate as a result. Thereupon, the country should attempt a legislation of an opt-in system, explicitness consent and improving cultural attitudes to

Robert and Troug illustrated an ethical concerns regarding a non-directed donation. For some instances, a person who is life-threatening sacrificing and ready to give-away everything as a radical altruism. For example, a man seemed to be pathological obsessed to give everything he own was wondering how to give his other organs after he donated his kidney as a suicidal action. In addition, a psychopath person who is seeking for people satisfaction or torturing himself. Therefore, looking at all these different dimensions, the transplantation teams are prohibiting the donation from those donors who have serious concerns. Moreover, and the most ethically problematic case, is to choose certain group or category to receive his or her own organ based on race or religious belief, for example. In florida, U.S.A, for instance, a family of a brain-dead patient accepted to donate his organs, yet to a white person merely since he had some discrimination preference. Thereupon, there are different moral criteria preventing any discriminatory preferences to avoid any unfairness and only to permit a justification