Saturday, March 28, 2009

Should we legalise the sale of human organs?


On Friday morning, our class had our second English current affair. The topic is"Should we legalise the sale of human organs?". In my personal view, we should do that. Now, I am going to talk about some informations regarding the topic.

In 2000, a total of 22,827 organs were transplanted in the United States. In the decade, the discrepancy between the number of available organs and the number of patients requiring a transplant operation has increased significantly.A British Medical Association report has indicated that in the period between 1995 and 1999, 1,000 patients in the United Kingdom died whilst waiting for a heart, heart and lung, or liver transplant. An average of 15 patients die every day in the US whilst awaiting an appropriate organ. It is sad when seeing people died when waiting for a suitable organ transpant. There is also black market which trades human organs, but the costs is very expensive. The poor people is not able to afford buying a human organ for the transplant, hence they will suffer and eventually die. In my point of view, I think the government should legal the sale of human organs and make the price more fair, so the poor people will still able to afford. This is my view about the sale of human organs.

1 comment:

  1. I guess the question becomes what is a fair price for an organ that could be the difference between life and death?

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