The Pros And Cons Of Transplant Tourism

Kevorkian (2009) asserted that there are five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody worries. Experiencing this instance creates a great impact on the country’s economic status. This situation is where the organ trade emanated from. Organ trade is the substitution of human organs with money for the aim of transplantation. To place it plainly, it is the buying and marketing of human organs. In line with this is the transplant tourism. Transplant tourism is the state of travelling overseas for the purpose of undergoing an organ transplant. Going overseas, particularly to third world countries, have its benefits. These include the cheaper price of operation, the abundant supply of organs and the masses that are willing to make up their organs for profit. Moreover, the United Network for Organ Sharing (1984) delineates transplant tourism as the commercialism of organ transplantation abroad, which includes access to

Both issues paved the way to the improvement of our country’s economy. Shadow market is the other term for underground economy. Underground economy is conceived as a market wherein people exchanged goods and services illegally. Furthermore, the key distinction of an underground economy trade can either be the illegal nature of goods and services themselves, the illegal nature of the transaction, or both. There are reasons why underground economy exists. One of these reasons is that people do not want to pay taxes for their transactions. Likewise, another factor includes the inability of some people to work legally and because they needed money, they do not present their income to the government. Not only have the people contributed to the underground economy, but also the government. The government can cause shadowing markets through burdening the people with rules and regulations. Thus, the high unemployment rate can also give rise to subversive