ORGANS

While this may be a comical look at organ harvesting and transplantation, it is a real life problem. Who gets to decide why we can't buy or sale organs if we really need to? Who gets to decide when it becomes a human rights violation? In a class this past week, a guest speaker spoke on this very topic. It was a very interesting discussion as to how people in poor parts of the world are willing to sell off there organs in order to make a few dollars. his case study focused on a man from Bangladesh who had sold a kidney on the black-market in order to buy himself a cell phone. The repercussions of the surgery were very severe for him personally. He saw the physical body and spirit as a whole so once his kidney was removed he felt empty and violated. But wasn't the decision totally his? Yes. So what shall we do? Allow organs to be sold legally so it doesn't happen on the black-market where conditions are unsanitary and no counseling can be provided by the health care system?