Awaiting Death Imagine sitting in a hospital bed, waiting, not knowing whether your life would continue the next day, praying that someone would donate part of their body so you could live another day. This is exactly what thousands of people are doing as they await for someone to donate them an organ. The issue at hand is that there is nowhere close to as many donors as there are people in need of an organ donated. Although this problem is massive, there is a clear and concise way to solve it. Legalizing the sale of human organs will benefit many people because it will increase donations, decrease poverty, and eliminate market scandals. With an estimated 90,000 people waiting for body parts and only about 5,000 living donors a year, one could say that there is a major problem. "The World Health Organization estimates that only 10 percent of global needs for organ transplantation are being met."
(Bilefsky). The issue of organ sales is increasingly rising without notice from the world. All 90,000 of these people waiting for an organ donor either have to wait and hope they are granted one from a living donor, or are forced to turn to family. Legalizing the sale of organs would give a whole new incentive for people to donate organs. Instead of counting on people to become donors for the good of humanity, the legalization would cause an uproar of donors who are in need of money. People in need of organs would receive organs and be able to live while the donors would receive payment for their donation. Both sides in this situation benefit as well as both eliminate the problem of not having enough donors for the worlds need. Not only would legalizing the sale of organs create more donors,