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I believe so. That would be a great incentive throughout their lifetime.
…Why? If I'm not mistaken…the person will be dead when the organs are donated…
if God wanted me to keep both of my kidneys, he wouldn't have invented alcohol.
Not Too . . . .
Liberty94 has a real good point. However, what I think would be the ultimate crime against humanity on this is that medical organ banks would be created to harvest organs from perfectly healthy people to cater to the mega wealthy so that they could live longer . . . . . .
Not a good thing from any angle.
You can donate some of your organs while you are alive, kidneys donations are the one most commonly kicked around by economists.
Yes, organ donors should be compensated.
As the death toll from the organ shortage mounts, public opinion will eventually support paying for human organs. Changes in public policy will then follow.
In the mean time, there is an already-legal way to put a big dent in the organ shortage — allocate donated organs first to people who have agreed to donate their own organs when they die. UNOS, which manages the national organ allocation system, has the power to make this simple policy change. No legislative action is required.
Americans who want to donate their organs to other registered organ donors don't have to wait for UNOS to act. They can join LifeSharers, a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die. Membership is free at http://www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.
Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. Non-donors should go to the back of the waiting list as long as there is a shortage of organs.
David J. Undis
Executive Director
LifeSharers http://www.lifesharers.org
Kidney's are not what I had in mind.
PapaDawg:
There's no flaw.
No one can tell you today if your organs will be transplantable when you die, because the science keeps changing. They're now transplanting organs from people who had cancer, HIV, and hepatitis C. When you die, they may be transplanting organs from people who had malaria.
Kidneys are the sort of organs that can be compensated while people are alive. So I'm not sure what you think you had in mind. But to be fair to your idea that we'd be doing something more severe, if you could harvest other organs for transplants from living people, the same sort of system would still benefit poor people far more than it would benefit the rich.
I would rather see organs grown in a lab from the recipients own cells. Thirty some years ago, my five year old son had open heart surgery to correct an endocardial cushion defect. The procedure was done by one of the best thoracic surgical teams in the country, the same doctors who operated on President Reagan when he was shot. Not quite a year after my son's surgery, my son passed away from complications due to that procedure. No fault of the surgical team. Eight years ago one of my grandsons had to have that very same procedure done, only at five months of age and the surgery was a resounding success. I know the advancements that have been made in medicine in that short period of time, and I have no doubt that sometime in the not so distant future we will have the ability to grow replacement organs from the recipients own cells – that will resolve all the rejection problems that is present in organ transplants. I pray for that day to come, as I have no doubt that it will.
So you'd have less of a problem with cloning than with inadequate organ donation rates (alone) causing shortages and killing thousands of people a year?
Interesting.
Now we just have to figure out how to repair those chromosome telomeres without causing cancer…
ive heard breat milk makes cancer cells implode. i wonder if that could do something
Yes i am a organ donator and we should get paid so fuck everybody who thinks we shouldnt get paid