Sometime ago there was an issue with a Nigerian senator who was arrested for human trafficking because he was trying to save the life of his daughter who needed a kidney transplant. Turned out that the person he was planning on collecting from was fully alive. But now let's think about it this way, people die every day in hospitals, there are even those whose death has been certain, supposing there was a law that gives them the ability to live in others. Would that senator bother going great lengths to see that his daughter lives…? Call him anything you want. In the eyes of the law he is a criminal, in the eyes of his daughter, he's a hero who would do anything to save his daughter's life.
I wonder why people would go against giving up organs of their bereaved, I understand it can be painful to lose a person, but then it is more painful to realize that someone would have been given a chance to live but lost that chance to someone who chose to die with what could make them live. There are those whose reason is simply because they came to the world complete and they want to leave the same way, but then I ask myself, how naive can a person really be, coming into the world complete is coming with a body soul and spirit, leaving the world is leaving your body behind to only God knows where. If that isn't the definition of incomplete then what is?
I understand that everyone has the right to live, and if it were possible, no one wants to die, but then death comes to us all whether we want it, like it, anticipate it, or run away from it. At the end of the day we can't cheat nature. But there are those who for one reason or the other could just live a little longer if they got what that dead man is having. One of the reasons I think transplants are expensive is because the organs are even more expensive. But if there is a way to get it from the recently deceased or from those who have just a few minutes or hours to live, why not get it and let life be given to those with a chance of survival.
From my research on wikipedia, an average of 150,000 people die every single day, and 90% of that number die as a result of old age. So let's be sincere, what does an old dying person need a kidney for? This might sound cruel, but it's the truth. If I am dying tomorrow, why not pass what is left of me to someone who has their whole life ahead of them so that every day that they live they can remember that there was a time they almost died and someone somewhere saved their lives. This is not something that's easy to come by, because everyone has one belief or the other, however if my opinion has any cent to it, then I would say let the dead live by living in the living.
