ORGAN DONATION FOR TRANSPLANT FROM THE CHRISTIAN BIOETHICS PERSPECTIVE

The ethical issues in organ transplantation rise mainly from the confrontation of two values, an individual one, corporal integrity, and human solidarity. The organ donation is a life saving act, a virtue of those for whom altruism is a purpose in itself. On the other hand, every human's corporal integrity must be protected, and to kill, to hurt, to mutilate, or abuse of the human body are morally unaccepted actions. Moral incorrectness towards the human being is expressed in the lawgiver terms as crime, or bodily harm, and in the religious concepts, as a sin. For this reason, it is hard to accept that the person who does not donate for reasons other than medical, can be considered as immoral and selfish.