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Ethics And Morality Organ Donation Term Paper

But who can tell who will give justice to the donated kidney. The 2-year-old child may grow up to be a smoker, drug user, obese hypertensive adult. The 47-year-old may realize the worth of life and live a clean healthy lifestyle. There are 92,486 Americans waiting to receive a life-saving kidney. Even with great efforts to increase sources of donors, still kidney shortage remains. In waiting for a donor there are many criteria to put a patient in the priority list.

For our two patients where the only difference between their situations is their age, it is difficult to decide who deserves the kidney more. Given that they will both live a fruitful life after the operation; the younger patient may be of greater "need" of the kidney. he/she will have a greater chance to live more and have more opportunities in life. This may sound unfair, but take into consideration that the child...

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Although this still is not sure.
Who can really decide who to live or not? Ethics and morality talks about "just selection" of who to receive a donated organ, but this may still be subjective. A 47-year-old may have lived many years of his life with some fulfillment. A 2-year-old patient is still aiming to do the same. Therefore, in my opinion, a child may be justly selected to have the opportunity to be saved and to live a longer life.

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Dan Davis, Ph.D., with Rebecca Wolitz. The Ethics of Organ Allocation. Staff Discussion Paper. 2006. http://www.bioethics.gov/background/davispaper.html

Dr. David L. Perry. Ethical Considerations in Organ Transplants. Adapted from lectures given by the author at Seattle University, Santa Clara University, and Dickinson College. http://home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/organs.html

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Dan Davis, Ph.D., with Rebecca Wolitz. The Ethics of Organ Allocation. Staff Discussion Paper. 2006. http://www.bioethics.gov/background/davispaper.html

Dr. David L. Perry. Ethical Considerations in Organ Transplants. Adapted from lectures given by the author at Seattle University, Santa Clara University, and Dickinson College. http://home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/organs.html
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