Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovering how the gift money is beingused has not been easy...
Recognizing that its $92,000 gift had already been delivered to the University, the class made efforts over thepast month to have the money held in escrow...
Monetary compensation for donation is ethically wrong. It asks people to sell their body parts for money. The idea of setting a price for as invaluable a gift as an organ is morally reprehensible. It leads to fears about the wealthy procuring organs much faster and leaving the poor at an incredible disadvantage. Also, this method has been tried in Third World nations. The chaos it has created in Egypt with a black market for organs should steer other countries away from trying...
...those morally opposed to organ donation. Their thoughts must be taken into account as well. Hospital cannot treat them with any less respect by denying certain services provided to the families of organ donors. Non-monetary compensation also tarnishes the image of organ donation--organ donors make a gift to society; society does not have a right to those organs. By marring the public's view of organ donation, we may see a decrease in potential donors. We cannot ignore the individual's rights in trying to provide an aid to society as a whole...
...that increase may have come at the expense of some opposed to donation. Organ donations is a moral gift to society because of the way it is now administered. We now treat the donation as an act of pure benevolence. Should this image be tainted in any way, organ donation will lose respectability in the eyes of the public--the same public which supplies the gift. In the long run, the plan could precipitate a marked decrease in donations...