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.