Organ Selling and Euthanasia

• Organ donation


  The giving of tissue/organ/body by a person to another person or to an institution
• Donor


  The given who may be a cadaver (with an assumptive document by the donor when still alive or by proxy) or a living person (either by relatives, non-relative)
• Vendor


  A person who exchanges their organ for money
• Recipient


  The receiver of the organ given by the donor or institution; a recipient who pays for the organ is a buyer
• Organ transplantation

  The transfer or the planting across of organ from donor/vendor to recipient/buyer
• Xenotransplantation


  The planting of an organ from animal organ to human beings
• Allotransplantation


  The transplantation of the organ from one body to another body of the same species
• Advance in surgery and introduction of new drugs have led to the steady growth of organ transplantation and donation
• Organs are a scarce resource, and many who need new organs die while on the waiting lists
• The lack of organs has led to abuses such as robbing, maiming, or even killing of donors, commercialization of organs by health care givers, middle men or institutions and coercion exploitation of disadvantaged donors or needy recipients
• The principles of stewardship and nonmaleficence state that man must take care of his body and do no harm to it
• If the donor is the cadaver, harvesting an organ will do no harm, but if the donor is living, taking away a healthy organ is not taking care of one's body
• A very proportionate reason and a meritorious act may override the rule of stewardship and nonmaleficence
• The rule of unselfish love, solidarity love of neighbor, beneficence, and charity may supersede the rules of stewardship and nonmaleficence
• Euthanasia


  An action/omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that suffering may be eliminated
• Dysthanasia


  The delaying or postponing death beyond its natural time by all means available
• Orthothanasia


  Allowing a terminally ill or suffering patient to die naturally, without aggressive medical interventions or life-sustaining treatments
• If one cannot bear to see suffering, then one resorts to an "advance" death, such as in euthanasia, suicide, or physician assisted suicide
• If one sees life as the highest value with death as a form of human defeat, or if one is overly influenced by available new technology and biological idolatry, then one does everything to prolong life beyond one's own time, which is known as dysthanasia
• If one sees death as the culmination of a good life, to be valued only until its natural end, one looks for a good death, which is orthothanasia