Robbing The Dead: Is organ Conscription Ethical
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The question of organ conscription continues to stir elusive debates as ethical and legal issues continue to question its morality. Transplantation ethics is concerned with advocating the rights and wrongs that underlie organ donation procedures. As the current health system continues to face huge challenges due to deficient organ donors, the ethical quest to adopt organ conscription o met this demand remains divisive. Transplantation ethic emphasizes bioethics as it is founded on the principles of Unitarianism. The criteria for organ retrieval from a diseased person are outlined in the ethical and policy considerations on organ donation after the Circulation Determination of Death.
Introduction
The number of people in the queue to receive transplants is enormous compared to the number of available donors. This situation has led to several deaths, raising several issues on the procurement of organs and the subsequent transplantation. For instance, these questions that arise are how we increase the number of the living and the dead donors and the best approaches that can be applied in the allocation of the organs from the respective donors.
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Moral Concerns on Organ Conscription
The principles of autonomy bound transplantation; that is, informed consent from the donor must be sought; the ethical question arises on organ conscription. Human moral values emphasize posthumous wishes. An individual’s post-humous wishes ought to be respected, and violating these wishes is understood to violate the deceased dignity. The acts of organ conscription against posthumous wishes are subversive to the dignity of human beings. The strategies meant to increase organ transplantations must always respect the voluntary decision not to donate organs afterlife.
Fairness and Justification of Organ Conscription
As the current healthcare system faces acute shortages of organ donations, conscription offers the choice to meet this current deficiency to enable those struggling with acute organ diseases to survive. Organ conscription has an immense utilitarianism appeal that offers the alternative medical miracle to these patients. This makes organ conscription a justified approach in mitigating the challenges posed by the deficient of organs. However, this justification can only be guaranteed by obtaining informed consent from a donor while alive allowing the violation of their remains when they die.
Relevance and Significance of Consent
An individual cannot override the decision to consent to organ donation while one dies. According to the Human Tissue Act, one objection to organ and tissue donation while alive ought to respect death (Cantarovich,2018). This is because no clear indication of consent changes; thus, no one can remove organ or tissue from your body. These ethical constraints on organ conscription bring the quest to address the deficiencies in our health care system.
Alternative Measures to Address Organ Donations Deficient
To effectively address this, we must seek alternative measures such as enacting legal provisions. This will encourage a better donation system and distribution of the organs donated, thus encouraging many donors. Providing financial incentives to the donors, and even the family will encourage value gain, thus attracting more donors (Cantarovich,2018). Increasing the societal members’ education levels on the issue and importance of organ donation to mitigate the ensuing crisis in the health sector. Education will change the negative perspectives currently enshrined in the minds.
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Hammami, M. M., Abdulhameed, H. M., Concepcion, K. A., Eissa, A., Hammami, S., Amer, H., Ahmed, A., & Al-Gaai, E. (2012, November 22). Consenting options for posthumous organ donation: presumed consent and incentives are not favored. BMC Medical Ethics. https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6939-13-32
Félix Cantarovich (February 24, 2018). The Society, the Barriers to Organ Donation and Alternatives for a Change, Organ Donation, and Transplantation – Current Status and Future Challenges, Georgios Tsoulfas, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.73756. Available from: https://www.intechopen.com/books/organ-donation-and-transplantation-current-status-and-future-challenges/the-society-the-barriers-to-organ-donation-and-alternatives-for-a-change