Yes Let's Pay For Organs Analysis

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Paying For Organs Paying for organs seems to have become a big talk here recently, and the book “Yes Let’s Pay for Organs” by Charles Krauthammer has made several good points. In the following essay you are going to read the good, the bad, the illegal side, and finally my opinion in the matter. First, the good for paying for human organs is that it would help both parties, the giving and receiving. The donor would receive money for his organ that the individual isn’t even using, which could make his/her life easier. The receiving person would get a new lease on life, getting to live longer thanks to the original owner of the organ. There would also, most likely, not be a shortage of organs for people who desperately needed them. Second, the bad part of paying for organs is that you are selling parts of the human body. This violates a 1984 federal law that declares organs a national resource and not subjected to compensation. Pennsylvania only plans to donate $300 to the funeral home to help pay for the costs of funerals. This would only be a gain to the poor, while to the rich $300 is nothing. If they raised it to $3,000 instead both the rich and…show more content…
The black market essentially is where if you have enough money you can buy just about anything you want. People are buying organs for $10,000 and selling them to the rich for $160,000. This is happening part of Asia, the Middle East, and many other regions. The rich even travel to other places such as China, and Pakistan to undergo organ transplants on the black market. All in all, I think that the people should be able to sell their organs before they die. Not necessarily so they get the money, so that their family can get the money and help with their grieving. It also should be more than $300, so that it’s not only the poor that sell their organs, but the rich. This is the good, the bad, the illegal, and my opinion on the

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