Persuasive Essay On Selling Organs

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Do you want to die of organ failure knowing you can survive? Almost twenty-two people die everyday from not getting organs that could be easily gotten. Since selling one’s organs are illegal, there aren’t enough organs to go around. Right now there are more than 119,000 people on the transplant list. One donor could save 8 lives. However, if selling your own organs was legal, there wouldn’t be hundreds of thousands of people on the organ transplant list. From the UNOS, United Network for Organ Sharing, they have listed many facts about organ donations. Every ten minutes, someone is added to the organ transplant list because one or more organs in their body has failed. More than half of the people on the list are on the list because of kidney failure. Out of the 119,000 …show more content…

Healthy people like you and me have two healthy kidney who can live with one, If everyone donated one of their kidneys, 80,000 people can live happily. Selling organs or simply making an organ marketplace would save thousands of lives. To start off, selling organs is illegal yet making legal would save hundreds of thousands of lives. Under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, any individual in the United States can be punished for buying or selling organs. The NOTA makes selling and buying organs illegal, the convicted individual could face up to five years with a prison sentence or an additive/other punishment of a fine. This law allows patients to be safe and prevent them from getting an illegal organ. However, if there was an organ marketplace, people would not have to remove their own organs and sell the organ by themselves. Hospitals could remove the organ in the operating room and the donor could recover safely and the patient who needed the organ/s would have a clean organ onto a healthy life. Since, this is not legal, there is a organ trafficking system other known as a black

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