Organ transplant is defined as the transfer of a living tissue or organ to an ill person to restore health or reduce disability. The first successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant performed in 1954. More than 105,000 people in the Untied States are on the UNOS waiting list for organs and 4,000 more are added each day. The number of people who need organs surpasses the limited number of organ donors. Organs can be removed and transplanted from living and cadaver donors. Taking organs from a living donor involves many medical ethic codes when considering the criteria for determining when the donor is dead, and when their organs can be removed. Organ donation saves lives but simultaneously involves the risk of murder. Many laws and …show more content…
Joy Victory provides that UNOS maintains the list, “but it’s left up to the 256 organ transplant centers across the United States to decide who gets on the list”, and “each center sets its own criteria, which often includes the ability for the patient to pay” (p. 726). The organ donation process contains too many steps, which makes the process lengthy. First the doctors have to put the patient on the list. Then the patient must wait years on end until UNOS is able to locate an organ match. That wait time can be considered murderous if the patient dies before an organ can save his or her …show more content…
Doctors do not have the medical authority to remove someone from life support without the consent from the patient’s loved ones because miraculous recoveries from coma are well recorded. Living wills help caregivers make a decision between life and death. Taking someone off of life support ultimately kills them, but then it is up to the patient, if they had a living will, or the next of kin to decide what to do with his or her body in this situation. The decision to donate organs saves lives and puts the patients in comas at rest when they