Spare a kidney, please?

While this is too of a complex issue to be dealt with in just a few lines, I wish to share my opinion on the matter. I am referring policies and practices concerning transplant of vital organs. At this point in time and this point in my life I sincerely believe that this practice must be advocated against, tightly regulated and eventually outlawed. Transplant of vital organs should only be allowed for research purposes and only on a small scale. Obviously, this is not happening today, since many countries have promoted legislation which presumes tacit agreement for transplant. This means that organs can be harvested from an individual deemed unable to sustain life due to serious injury, even when there is no explicit consent from the person involved or from its close relatives. My main argument against transplant of vital organs is that it can be easily derailed into abusive practices and all sorts of unethical but lucrative businesses. This is already happening and even if on a small scale, the potential to grow out of control is huge, especially due to rapid advancement of cloning technologies. There is potential, as we speak, to bring to life and grow human specimens outside any regulated medical institution and implicitly outside any official registration. My second argument is that what needs to be encouraged instead is the conception and development of artificial organs, be they mechanical, electrical of including organic tissue. I believe that this is a much more sustainable approach and will benefit the humankind on the long run, since ultimately people need to evolve beyond their innate organic limits. The third argument is that encouraging the prolongation of life at all costs it is not desirable. Rather, the quality of life and morality in terms of useful contributions to society should be promoted and advocated for. However dramatic is the ending of a life, especially when it happens outside normal biological limits, it should not lure us into denying our mortal nature and indulging into practices aimed at postponing an inevitable but decent end. Besides, existing technology allows the recording of one’s lifetime experience in the greatest detail, and this can be easily passed to future generations if this is desired.