Summary Of Organ Sales Will Save Lives By Joanna Mackay

The Choice of Life or Death Choosing between life or death is not a decision that you want to make. Of course pretty much everyone is going to choose life over death, but is some cases you don’t have that choice. In the article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, written by the author Joanna MacKay, she presents an argument about whether or not the sale of organs should be legalized. She builds her credibility by giving numerous facts, examples, and statistics on the argument. People die everyday waiting and hoping to get the call about finding a match for a kidney so that they can have a kidney transplant done. Those who are suffering from end-stage renal disease would do just about anything for the chance at getting a new kidney. Most people

Dialysis basically acts as an artificial kidney by filtering the blood of the patients on it. Dialysis can be both a good and a bad thing. The good in it is works just like a kidney would for a temporary fix, the bad is that sessions last three hours, several times a week. Dialysis is very harsh on the patient’s bodies, especially the ones that become dependent on it. It basically drains their bodies and causes them to become very weak and most of them aren’t able to work anymore. Kidney transplants also have their risks, but it is the closes thing to a cure for this disease. This is why the government should legalize the sell of organs so that people can have a second chance at

She states that dialysis adds excessive stress to the body and causes the patients to feel faint and tired, which usually keeps them from work and other normal activities. In the very last paragraph of the essay she states, “Try to tell someone that he has to die from kidney failure because selling a kidney is morally wrong. Then turn around and try to tell another person that he has to remain in poverty for that same reason.” (MacKay) These examples show the feeling and emotion of what the people are being told because the sale of kidneys is