Why Shouldn T Organ Donation Be Mandatory

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Why Shouldn’t Organ donation be Mandatory BUM BUM, BUM BUM. The heart sits in the tray, lying over freezing cold ice. On its way to its new body, the heart is slowly beating, as if it is not going to make it. The heart is the most important organ in your body and your life depends on it. The individual has been compelled to undertake the donated heart because by law she has to, but her own family has shamed her because of their religion and beliefs. Organ Donation shall not be mandatory because it could be against someone's religion, it could open a floodgate into many other things, and it could also spread diseases vastly.
Organ donation should not be mandatory because of many different religions, and their beliefs. Some of these religions …show more content…

Making it compulsory “may cause people to murder others by hit-and-run incidents just so they die, such that the organs could be given to a family member that needs the organ (Debate.org). If a loved one urgently needed an organ, if someone is so eager that they get that organ, they may murder a person, no matter the consequences. Also, making organ donation mandatory could conflict in an illegal uprise of organ trafficking. Some people may argue that organ donation should be mandatory because many bodies are buried or cremated still stuffed with all of their organs, though many people die because they didn't get the organ donation they needed. However, if every person's organs were donated after death, there may be an overpopulation of donated organs that will eventually go to waste and can no longer be …show more content…

“On May 3, 2005, CDC received a report of severe illness in four patients who had received solid organ transplants from a common donor. All four organ recipients subsequently were found to have evidence of infection with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), a rodent-borne Old World arenavirus”(CDC). “In 2004, four recipients of kidneys, a liver, and an arterial segment from a common organ donor died of encephalitis of an unknown cause...Encephalitis developed in all four recipients within 30 days after transplantation and was accompanied by rapid neurologic deterioration characterized by agitated delirium, seizures, respiratory failure, and coma”(Srinivasan). These are examples of stories of people who have died because they had an organ donation, and why we should be more careful about who gets a donated organ and who donated the