organ donation
Giving vital parts
Organ donation is the giving of organs or tissue from one's body for transplantation into another person.
Donation may occur after death or, for certain organs like kidneys, while alive.
Someone who has agreed to donate is an organ donor.
The practice raises ethical questions about consent, allocation, and the definition of death.
- recipientOne who receives something
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
- heartCirculatory system's pump
- graftIllicit political gain
gift of life · altruism · tissue · lung · immunosuppression · opt out · engraftment · marrow · hospital · liver · lifesaving · waitlist · harvest · cornea · generosity · ICU · informed consent · rejection
- organ transplantswaiting list, bone marrow, waitlist
- Australian HealthPBS, health departments, health ministers, public hospitals, private hospitals
- Body Rightsbodily autonomy, medical consent, self-ownership, reproductive rights, medical autonomy
- health lawshealth law, Obamacare, health standards, health regulations, healthcare mandates
- voluntary participationvolunteering, charity work, community service, opt-in, consent
- self-sacrificehuman shield, selflessness, self-denial, renunciation, forfeit