A case for the legalization of organ selling

I find myself agreeing with the model that has been adopted in Iran. While I do think that selling body parts is not a proper way to make money, I think by implementing a system in which it is regulated would prove to have positive outcomes. By regulating the selling of organs, the amount of shady, illegal black market sales for would decrease. In the article about the selling of organs in Bangladesh, poor people were duped into believing they would be getting compensated by rich organ recipients for donating their money. They would encounter much additional suffering apart from the surgery, one donor accounts having to be circumcised before the surgery so the doctor would not notice that he and the organ-recipient weren’t actually “brothers”. The issue of diseased organs also arises with the sale of organs on the black market. It can be difficult to ensure that the donor would be receiving a diseased organ or one that could possibly not be a match.  Legalizing the sale of organs would also decrease the people who are waiting for an organ. According to the article by Ghods and Savaj, by implementing a system in which organ selling is legal and regulated, there is currently no waitlist for people in need of a kidney. If you look at the data for the past year, there are 90,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney. Only 17,000 people have received transplants. The majority of these transplants come from patients who are dead. Statistically, transplants from live donors are more successful than those from donors who are already dead. I personally would find it much easier to accept an organ donation from someone who willingly gave up their organ as opposed to someone who was listed as an organ donor and then died solely because the former willingly gave it up. I would find it extremely difficult to accept the fact that in order for me to live, someone else would have to die.