Thursday, November 30, 2006

Selling Body Organs

Many people today get into accidents, or their health gets so bad to where they have to resort to organ transplants. For most people they are put on a “list” to receive a transplant. Some of the patients family members get tired of watching their family member wither away to death and they resort to finding body organs over the internet, but are that the right thing to do. Buying someone else’s body organs over the internet is a risk; you do not know if they are real, or if someone is just trying to get money in a sick way. If an organ donor dies and their organs are donated, where will they actually go? Do you think that it should be illegal for someone to sell his or her body organs over the internet?

1 comment:

EBO said...

I absolutely believe that selling organs on the internet should be illegal. The human skeletons used in science classes used to be actual human bones (now they artificially create them although some of the human skeletons can still be found). Then it was discovered that people were being murdered for their skeletons (each skeleton being worth several hundred dollars which goes a long way in some poor nations). For this reason, the practice of buying human skeletons was ended. With the organ situation, selling online would make it difficult to regulate where organs were coming from leaving the very real possibility of a return to the murder of human beings for the profit of the individuals selling organs.