Organ Donations, Permissible Circumstances

Having decided that the general principle of organ donation is not necessarily wrong, we now need to know under what circumstances it is permissible. First, we will touch on differences between various organs. Then, we will focus on different types of donors. Significant attention will be given to the definition of death, as this is pivotal to most major organ transplants.

Organ Donations

On the topic of organ donations, we have considered clearly dead donors and questionable dead donors. We will now return to considering the different types of living donors. This limits donation to those organs or tissues the body can replace or do without. These include blood, bone marrow, bone, kidneys, sperm and eggs. Sperm and eggs donation is an important topic that we will not deal with at this time.