Kidneys are needed more than ever, with the article’s prediction of 650,000 kidney failure patients. The relationship between the donor and patient is supposed to be unreciprocal, the patient’s desperation for a working organ could strain that tenuous relationship. The number of donors are unlikely to rise in response to the amount of needed kidneys. Most of the donors are already dead and their families grant permission for the donations. However, the only allowed dead are those dead from brain death, a pool a little over 10,000 people. So to get more kidneys, it is suggested that an actual paying market instead of simply alturistic donations should be opened.
Should there be legal kidney markets? Or any other organ markets? Why or why not?
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