Should Organ Donors Get Preference if They Need an Organ Transplant?

August 27, 2015

(ABC.net) – If you could save ten people, at little or no cost to you, would you do it? If someone is willing to be an organ donor, should they get preference in the event that they need an organ for themselves? Is there a moral obligation to donate your organs? Ethicist Julian Savulescu says the answer to all three of those question is yes, though it seems from the statistics and the debate about organ donation that the second and third questions still vex Australians deeply.