The Right to Provide a Second Chance to Life

            I believe individuals should have the rights to sell his or her organs. People have ownership of their own body if they are alive or not, and it is up to them to decide how their body should be used. I think the individual has two choices: bury, criminate the body, or donate its body. By becoming an organ donor, you are able to save the life others, and impact the lives of their love ones.  According to the United States Network Organization, “Each year more than 25,000 organ transplants are made possible by 6,000 deceased donors. Live donors account for another 7,000 transplants, including kidneys, and partial liver, lung and pancreas donors. Meanwhile 65,000 tissue and cornea donors provide more than 900,000 tissue and corneal transplants annually.” Just thinking about it, one body has many elements, and has the ability to convert a human to health. Major donations include: heart, lungs, kidney, liver, pancreas, and the intestines. Let’s remember the bones, tendons, tissue, and even skin lost in many cases. If your body is able to provide a second chance in existence for someone, then I believe people have the rights to sell their organs.

Since I already agree with people having the right to their own organs after death, my opinion after reading the article does not change. People should not be stopped from selling their organs, especially since they are not harming the life of others around them. One topic the article discusses is the possibility of individuals being paid for their personal organs? I believe it does not make a difference because in the end, doctors are still receiving the same thing, the healthy limbs. However, if the rate of organ supplies increases, then providing money to the donor could be a possible solution in increasing the supply. By  providing your organs to an individual, you are giving them a forever gift of life.