Who has my Kidney?

Sometimes in life organs go bad and you have to get them replaced. How do hospitals decide who gets an organ transplant? Do they investigate the person’s family to see how kind this person was considered to be and whether or not they were a drain on society? Do they look at their medical records and see if they have had a long history of trouble with the certain organ that is needing replaced? Do they investigate why this organ has gone bad? Was it from too much smoking, drinking too much alcohol, or eating too many fried foods or foods that were not good for them? Some donors will tell the hospitals that they only want their organs to go to a person who is in their family that needs a transplant and others will request their organ go to someone who will not misuse it. For example, let’s say that someone is donating their liver and they want it to go to a person whose liver did not fail because they drank so much, or something like that. Some rude donors will say that they are going to donate their organs only to a person of the same race as them, which is not right in my opinion. It seems pretty cruel to refuse an organ to someone who needs one. Most hospitals will look at the donor’s preference when searching for who gets the organ they are donating. The person who is to receive the organ first of all must be able to pay for the organ. This means that most people who cannot afford the organ will not get the organ and will likely die. I think that is very sad. I wish there was a way that we could change something like that because that means that a very deserving, good person could die. After that they usually go with the standard procedures of picking out a recipient. Who needs the organ the most? If there are two people that equally need the organ as badly as the other then they must go with who was on the list for the organ first because it’s first come, first saved. They will also look at whether or not you are of this nation because tax-paying people’s money is sometimes paying for this organ. I’m not sure if I agree with this but I guess when you think about it, I could see some people saying that. An example of this would be a prisoner. Would you want a prisoner to get your heart if you donated it? Convicted rapist Kenneth Pike, of Auburn, New York was put on the heart transplant list. He was recently offered a heart and turned it down even though it would save his life. The reason he turned it down is because it was causing such an uproar with the public. People did not want their tax paying dollars to go toward giving a new lease on life to a man who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl (who was related to him) in 1992. The heart transplant would have cost $800,000 and because he is in prison, tax payers would be the ones who paid for it. Kenneth Pike, who is 55 years of age is supposed to be serving 18 to 40 years in prison for this horrendous act, so would he even get to use this heart if he received it? If he was imprisoned in 1996, then that means that he has about three more years to go if he is to be let out at 18 years, but will he rape another? You would think that someone like this wouldn’t even be considered because of what they did. Do you think that this man deserved a new heart?