Organ Transplant
Is organ transplants beneficial or harmful to humans?
Background Information
- The first organ transplant was a skin graft.
- If donor dies the family has to consent with donating the rest.
- There are lots of people waiting to get an organ transplant.
- You can transplant kidneys, liver, lungs, hearts, and etc.
- Livers can regenerate to a point.
- Sometimes transplants can happen within the same person.
Benefits
- You can have a better quality of life.
- You can live longer.
- You can gain benefits.
- In Iran if donate an organ you can gain money and limited health insurance.
- There is regenerative medicine.
Dangers
- There is a risk of death in organ transplants.
- You can get wound infections, you can bleed, you can get chronic pain, and hypertension.
- People can take advantage of the poor.
- You can get aids if you transplant animal organs.
- Your immunity system can attack the new organs.
- The long wait can kill the people in need of an organ transplant.
- The people who get an organ transplant can become brain dead.
My Thoughts
I believe that organ transplant is more harmful then beneficial. There are lots more harms to having a organ transplant. Some of those harms are bleeding, wound infection, chronic pain, hypertension and more. The benefits to getting an organ transplant and surviving is having a better quality of life, having a longer time to live, sometimes money, and you can sometimes also get benefits. Some of the times people who get organ transplants can become brain dead. There is also a long wait so you can die of waiting for an organ transplant. That is why i believe that organ transplants are more harmful then beneficial.
Biblography
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