Should gratitude be a requirement for access to live organ donation?

Article Article scientifique Article Should gratitude be a requirement for access to live organ donation? eng 2017 author Escher Monica 33075 author Lamuela Monique 37180 author Bollondi Catherine 549796 author Flores Menendez Paola author Hurst Samia 0000-0002-1980-5226 84281 762-765 10.1136/medethics-2016-103698 28356491 0306-6800 http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/29/medethics-2016-103698 Gratitude is both expected and problematic in live organ donation. Are there grounds to require it, and to forbid access to live donor transplantation to a recipient who fails to signal that he feels any form of gratitude? Recipient gratitude is not currently required for organ donation, but it is expected and may be a moral requirement. Despite this, we argue that making it a condition for live organ transplantation would be unjustified. It would constitute a problematic and disproportionate punishment for perceived immoral behaviour on the part of the recipient. It would also bar the donor from positive aspects of organ donation that remain even in the absence of recipient gratitude. A potential recipient's lack of gratitude should be explored as a possible symptom of other morally problematic issues and integrated into the information provided to the potential donor. Recognition of the donor's gift and gratitude for it may also need to be expressed in part by others. This last aspect is relevant even in cases where the recipient feels and expresses gratitude. Dewey 174.957 69 Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités 22A6 false 453 Ethique biomédicale 783 302 Groupe Desmeules Jules (pharmacologie/toxicologie) 567 Journal of medical ethics 43 11 d41a260a-41a6-4666-a7c9-9ab0a86d0d8e Article (Published version) Restricted medethics-2016-103698.full-3.pdf 152440 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires / Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités

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