INTRODUCTION (ME)

CARE AT THE PROMOTION OF LIFE: ORGAN TRANSPLANTION AND DONATION

JOAN COLLADO PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

Advance in surgery and introduction of new drugs have led to the steady growth of organ
transplantation and donation. The removal of the organ from one being and its implantation into
another has saved lives or made lives better. Unfortunately organs are scarce resource. Thus, many who
need new organs die while on the waiting lists. This lack of organs has led to abuses such as robbing,
maiming, or even killing of donors, commercialization of organs by health care givers, middle men or
institutions and coercion exploitation of disadvantaged donors or needy recipients. It is in the abuse that
violation occurs.

SHIELA BANAYAD PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

Terms to consider:

•Organ donation- means the giving of tissue/organ/body by a person to another person or to an

institution

•Donor- the given who may be a cadaver (with an assumptive document by the donor when still alive or
by proxy) or a living person (either by relatives, non-relative)

•Vendor- is a person who exchange their organ for money

•Recipient- the receiver of the organ given by the donor or institution; a recipient who pay the organ is a
buyer

AIRISH AMBONI PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

•Organ transplantation- means the transfer or the planting across of organ from donor/vendor to
recipient/buyer

•Xenotransplantation- is the planting of an organ from animal organ to human beings.

•Allotransplantation- it is the transplantation of the organ from one body to another body of the same
species.

JEELIAN REY PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

•Organ donor

Our main concern is to care life that is the life of the donor.

“The principles of stewardship and nonmaleficence state that man must take care of his body and do no
harm to it. If the donor is the cadaver, harvesting an organ will do no harm. If the donor is living, taking
away a healthy organ is not taking care one’s body: no life is saved, no health is restored. Removal o
organ may even be mutilation. However, a very proportionate reason and a meritorious act my override
the rule of stewardship and nonmaleficence.

MAVERICK LADERAS PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

“The rule of unselfish love, solidarity love of neighbor, beneficence, and charity these may supercede the
rules of stewardship and nonmaleficence.”

In such a case it is praiseworthy, for it takes what it means to belong to a human society that we
are fulfilling our duty to one another (deontological duty) and to contribute to the goal of medicine
(healing). By this it makes the giver a better person.

LORYLANN UGAWA PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

CARE AT THE END OF LIFE: EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE

One’s values regarding life and death are reflected in how one dealt with the dying. If one cannot
bear to see suffering, then one resorts to an “advance” death, such in euthanasia, suicide, or physician
assisted suicide. If one sees life as the highest value with death as a form of human defeat, or if one is
overly influenced by available new technology and biological idolatry then one does everything to
prolong life beyond one’s one time and this is known as dysthanasia. On the other hand, if one sees
death as the culmination of a good life, to be valued only until its natural end, one looks for a good death
this is orthothanasia.

ANGEL TERROBIAS PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

Before proceeding to the types of death, it is important to determine first signs of the moment of
death, signs of death and when to pronounce that a person is dead.

Types of Death:

•Euthanasia- means an action/omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that
suffering may be eliminated. It procures/imposes death before one’s time.

SAN ANTONIO PART: (READ AND EXPLAIN IT IN A SIMPLEST WAY)

•Dysthanasia- is the delaying or postponing death beyond its natural time by all means available.

•Orthothanasia- also known as passive euthanasia or natural death, is an ethical concept and medical
practice that involves allowing a terminally ill or suffering patient to die naturally, without aggressive
medical interventions or life-sustaining treatments. Unlike active euthanasia, where medical
professionals take active steps to end a patient’s life, orthothanasia involves refraining from
interventions that would artificially prolong the dying process or life when there is little hope of recovery.