THE DONATION AND SALE OF HUMAN ORGAN IN RELATION TO HUMAN DIGNITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL EVALUATION.

Abstract

Human Organ(s) for Sale is a topical issue in the contemporary society and particularly for bioethics and bioethicists owing to the increase on how human organs are procured and supplied either for medical purposes or ritual reasons. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Organs for Sale posits that deciding together on the limits of markets, and on what is and ought to be for sale, sheds light on the moral fabric of human dignity, our society and what it needs to thrive. Human dignity is characteristic respect for persons and their inalienable rights by recognizable foundational reason that they are human beings and have capacity to assert claims. This study aims to investigate and evaluate public moral deliberation and the relationship between economic worth and the value systems of a society in relation to donation and organ sale. Utilizing the analytic method coupled with interpretation, the study focuses on the normative dimensions of the strategies needed on procurement and sale of organs considering the sanctity of human dignity. While society has shown serious concern over debates surrounding organ donation, and sales, the study presents a better understanding of the rhetoric of advocates and philosophical underpinnings of the debate needed to improve our public moral deliberation in general and organ policy more specifically. The research concludes with the notion that considering the sacredness of human dignity and financial compensation for human organs, it is not morally permissible to put up for sale human organs but donations without monetary attachments should be considered for the purpose of saving lives.