Title: Financial Compensation for Organ Donation
1Financial Compensation for Organ Donation
2The Question?
- Should there be compensation as a means to
increase organ donation?
3Why do we need more organs?
-18 people die every day waiting for
transplants. -There are now more then 98,000
people on the waiting lists for organs. -A total
of 28,930 transplants took place in 2006 and
6,700 were from live donors and the rest were
from cadavers. - Meantime, some 90,000 patients
got sicker and 7,041 died. -By being an organ and
tissue donor ONE person can help or save up
to 50 people.
4Financial Compensation?
- Financial compensation would include a payment to
the families of the deceased loved one. - The prices varied from 300-5,000 in
compensation. - In most cases given as a compensation to cover
funeral prices and/or burial rates.
5My Thesis
Using John Stuart Mill it will be proven in this
paper that financial compensation for organ
donation is the right and moral thing to do.
John Stuart Mill
6John Stuart Mill
- John Stuart Mill is a teleological thinker, which
means that consequences DO matter. - Mills Principle of Utility states that we must
choose the action that has the best overall
result for everyone concerned. - The act of financial compensation for organ
donation IS an action that has the best overall
result for everyone concerned. - -More organs are donated which means more people
are surviving and waiting lists are shorter. - -Those suffering the loss of a loved ones are now
compensated for their loved ones donation and no
longer have the burden of the funeral and/or
burial.
7Mill continued
- Mill also defends the possibility of a strong
utilitarian conscience by showing how such a
feeling can develop out of the natural desire we
have as humans to be in unity with fellow
creaturesa desire that enables us to care what
happens to others and to perceive our own
interests as linked with theirs
8Immanuel Kant
- Immanuel Kant would argue that the mere act of
organ donation is immoral in itself and
furthermore to offer a Financial Compensation to
increase donations is immoral as well. - Kant is a deontological thinker, which means that
the consequences do not matter.
9Kant
- Formula of the End in Itself-states that humans
are always ends in themselves, therefore human
beings have value so we should not use them. - Kant would argue that the use of someones organs
is a means to an end and is not morally right. - We ought to treat people as having a value all
their own rather than merely as useful tools or
devices by means of which we can satisfy our own
goals or purposes. Other people are valuable not
merely insofar as they can serve our purposes
they are also valuable in themselves
10Conclusion
John Stuart Mills theory proves that financial
compensation to increase the numbers for organ
donation is the best overall action for every one
involved.