Patience is a virtue human often lack. There are a lot of things that are inevitable such as car accidents, diseases, and death. When things go wrong, we tend to quickly scramble to fix whatever the problem may be. We want our mistakes to be fixed. Us as individuals do not want to sit around and be patient. However, thousands of individuals life is a waiting game. There is no other option for them but to sit around and wait. It sounds cruel for someone to just sit around and wait for somebody to just drop dead for someone organ, but the harsh reality is we are all fighting to survive. ‘95,000 American men, women and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys. yet only about 16,500 were performed that year.”
The thousands of individuals who were lucky to receive a transplant may have been waiting for years. Some are still on the transplant list are just waiting until their lucky day to comes. The wait is rough and many passes away before they even have the chance to receive the transplant. As the years pass by the waiting list just gets longer. According to Becker and Elias, contributors to The Wall Street Journal, ‘the average wait is 2.9 years.'(222). Legalizing the market for human organs should occur, because it will decrease the average wait for a transplant in the U.S. Easing the minds of thousands of sick individuals and their loved ones. To begin with, the number of kidneys needed far exceeds the number of kidneys that are available.
‘That is why in 2012, almost 4,500 people died while waiting for a kidney transplants. Because they were unable to replace their defective kidneys quickly enough.’ (Beck and Elias 223). Many of the people who are on the transplant list have an average wait of 2.9 years, so they are put on dialysis. However, dialysis does not guarantee survival. In fact, life expectancy on dialysis average is only 8 years longer than if the patient was not on dialysis. Creating a market for human organs would decrease the waiting list saving thousands of lives.
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Allowing this market to open would allow patients to have a much larger opportunity of survival. It would save so much suffering for the patient and their loved ones. It is rough to sit around and wait for a miracle to happen. These individuals that are on the waiting list are not guaranteed an organ but guaranteed to wait. Not only would opening the market would save life’s, it would also save those on the transplant list thousands of dollars. The ‘cost of dialysis is more than $70,000 per patient per year'(Posner 303). These patients are already suffering so why should their pockets suffer as well? By removing the ban on selling organs the ‘estimated price for a kidney would be $100,000′(Posner 303).
That is saving thousands of dollars for the patient. ‘insurer wants to avoid the high cost of dialysis'(Posner 304). Insurance would much rather pay the price for a kidney once than the yearly amount of dialysis. Equally important, establishing a market for organs would allow the government to have more control over it. This market is already existent and is profiting largely. Since the black-market profits from selling whatever substances or items are illegal, the pricing is explicit. However, by making the selling of organs legally it could be regulated properly. Also, if people do not want to donate, they do not have to. People can take care of their own bodies. If someone wants to donate an organ out of the kindness of their heart, they should be able to do it without having to force a friendship.
Sally Satel, an organ receiver herself, wrote for The New York Times about her experience. She mentions in one of her articles that a random stranger heard through the grapevine that a friend needed a kidney transplant and he was a perfect match. Out of the kindness of his heart he decided he wanted to donate his kidney. However, the transplant program turned him down. ‘if he had been a family member or a good friend, he would have been acceptable.’ (Satel 225). This person was not searching for money, he was solely doing it out of the kindness in his heart.
However, he was not able to do it because he was being accused of doing it for money. Another reason the market should be legalized, is so those who want to do it because they are good people should be able to without being accused of wanting money. For example, surrogates. Those who cannot support a baby in their uterus are unable to get pregnant themselves often rely on a surrogate. This surrogate can be anybody from a random stranger to a family member. A surrogate often gets paid for carrying the baby for nine months, however some do it for their family out of love.
As humans we all want to do good, we all want to help out. So, if we can help decrease the drastic need for organs why should we not? Furthermore, blood may run thicker than water however the kindness of a stranger may be larger than the one family has to offer. Opening the market would lift the pressure a family member may obtain when they are asked if they want to donate to help save their own blood. They will not feel obligated to donate. ‘donation is a sullen fulfillment of family duty, a way to avoid the same and guilt of allowing a relative to suffer'(Saten 227).
I would much rather receive an organ out of the kindness of someone’s heart than receive one that was forced upon them. Why the limit the sources someone can receive an organ from? If it is needed and it is out there it should easily be tangible. This market would decrease the wait and increase the options of those in search for organs. It would also allow more people to get off dialysis. To some everything up. legalizing the market for human organs to be sold would save so many lives. It would allow patients to live their best life and not just sit around and wait for the day they receive an organ.
If we have the resources and ability to cut the waiting list from prolonging, then we should. We should. Although some disagree and say that the ban is still needed because it takes away humanity, which is contradicting because if it takes away our humanity why do we still kill animals? That takes away their sense of living and fulfillment. At the end of the day, the person who decides to donate is going to feel rewarded, not because of the money but because they helped save a life. That is compassion and an inhumane person would not be able to feel.
