I have to say, that reading about the last century's increase in Medicine and Technology and the entrance to this one, why is it that Society hasn't evolved on enough on "Moralism" to actually donate their organs for someone who needs it. I am not saying that everyone should donate their organs, it is their free will.
What I'm asking is, why do people that are near death not given a proper chance to actually check NO or YES in donating his organs after death, like seriously, such a valuable organ is of no use to a dead body and it could help millions. This is of course also economical, many people in the US for example use Dialysis, and since Nixon's signing of the Bill that ensured government payment for every Dialysis treatment it actually costs 1% of the National Budget. And that's a lot by comparison to Education in the US (which is 2%)!
So in conclusion, what is stopping people who are nearing their Death to actually make a donation that could literally save the life of another and lower the need for Dialysis treatment (since Kidney transplant can triple your chances of survival).
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I was told they wouldn't take all measures nessesary to keep me alive if they knew they could use one of my organs. For years I wasn't a donor because of that nonsense. Now I am.
Selfishness. That's what's stopping them.
And strangely enough, and i've heard this enough, "they want to die in dignity without being cut".
I'm 19 and i'm an organ donor; if you're older than 18, I see no reasonable argument not to be an organ donor.
Did you donate a nipple or a kidney?
Some people might be unfit to donate organs due to disease and medications. I for one take a few medications that keep me from donating my organs.
I agree, to me, everyone should be a willing organ donor, but I am aware a lot of people do not think like I do. The whole when you are dead, there is nothing, your body is just rotting meat. As much as I despise religions, forcing others to go against their religious beliefs and allow their organs to be harvested in my mind is very wrong.
As others have said, not everyone can be organ donor. Certainly when you get old, (when most of us die.) Many of your organs quickly become not worth the risk of transplant, an 80 year old heart, even if the person was in good shape, will likely fail to work at all, or if it did work, would likely fail shortly after transplant. Yes it is better than nothing, but at one point the cost, risks etc out weigh the benefit.
Organ printing and growing is quickly advancing in medical technology, hopefully soon, we will not need organ donors anymore, people can just use their own DNA and have replacement organs printed for them based on their DNA that will not be rejected by the body. In the meantime millions will continue to die as they wait on the transplant list, still a better option then before the technology to transplant human organs began.
The organ shortage in rich countries is also fuelling a really nasty black market in China and elsewhere. Until recently, China was executing prisoners to order to supply organs to wealthy buyers.
http://www.news.com.au/national/australians-turn-to-black-market-for-hum...
Back in the 80s New Zealand introduced a system where you could tick a box to be an organ donor when you renewed your driver's license. I guess that was because traffic fatalities would be the biggest potential of source of organs.
@Endri: Well, this is one of those few things that I can be very proud of my country and my fellow citizens. Spain, with 1,851 donors and 4,769 organs transplanted in 2015, was for its twenty-fourth consecutive year its world leadership in transplants, with a rate of 40.2 donors per million population (p.m.p.). Last year 13 transplants were done daily. By organs, a total of 2,905 kidney transplants, 1,162 hepatic, 299 cardiac, 294 pulmonary, 97 pancreas and 12 intestinal transplants were performed. And, of course, the process, selection, operation, post-operation and the entire medical and health process is completely free, like in all EU.
How does a country that has laws against blasphemy have got its citizens to support organ transplants in this way? Simple, because between 1982 and 1996 the government, by the way, a leftist government, invested a lot of time and money in convincing them that organ transplantation is something civic, desirable and saves lives. Oh, and one in 15 Spaniards donates blood more than twice a year, also in a completely altruistic.
Why doesn't a country as the United States do the same, or why don't US citizens do the same? Because the United States charges astronomical amounts to perform a transplant to a patient, and the preoperative and postoperative becomes so prohibitive that it's impossible to make it affordable even to certain people with medical insurance. That makes the citizen's perspective is that they donate their organs when they die and a company makes money with them without there being any counterpart to them or their families... I'll not say they're right, but neither I'll say that they haven't it.
I am an organ donor. At one time, I had a problem with donating my skin, until I learned donated skin was used to help burn victims. After that, I became an unrestricted donor... By way of warning, my right hip is bad so let the buyer beware if they harvest it