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Title: Financial Compensation for Organ Donation


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Financial Compensation for Organ Donation
  • By Wesley Pierce

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The Question?
  • Should there be compensation as a means to
    increase organ donation?

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Why 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.
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Financial 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.

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My 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
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John 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.

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Mill 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

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Immanuel 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.

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Kant
  • 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

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Conclusion
John Stuart Mills theory proves that financial
compensation to increase the numbers for organ
donation is the best overall action for every one
involved.
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