Can you spare a kidney?

Kidney Donation and Transplantation (Name) (University) (Course) (Tutor) (Date) Although living donors constitute the most common source of kidney for transplantation, use of this alternative calls for several ethical considerations. To begin with, use of living donors exposes the contributor at risk, thereby violating medical rules against doing no harm. By removing a healthy kidney from the donor, the contributor is automatically turned into a patient to benefit another sick person. Subsequently, the benefactor and caregiver experience an ethical dilemma and hence, the benefit of the procedure to both the recipient and the donor should offset the risks related to the use of a living donor (Childress & Liverman, 2006). Similarly, use of living donors should provide for informed consent as well as the option for refusal to protect vulnerable living contributors from coercion and to ensure their willingness to donate (Gruters, 2013). Declaration of one’s readiness to donate an organ on the driver’s license, provides the state with the irrevocable “first-person consent” use particular organs once a person dies. Nevertheless, this legal mandate denies the family the right to participate in or alter organ donation decisions made by a deceased relati...