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Student's Name: Professor's Name: Course number: Date: Article 1: Who Owns Your Body The article by Kerry Howley, "Who owns your body," published on March 2007, raises the alarm on how body parts from the corpses are used for medical purposes yet some of the donors are not made aware of the practices, and neither the donors nor their families are not financially rewarded. This is contrary to the fact that though the films involved in the receivership of the donated organs are non-profit entities, the films, including the doctors, nurses and hospitals have been recording huge sums of revenues from selling the processed body parts. The article raises a question of whether in the time of our death, we still own bodies or they become a just a commodity? With the rise in technology, the demand for the body parts has risen and so does the illegality in obtaining the remains of our body for medical purposes. Article 2: Donors Retain No Rights to Donated Tissue The article by Kristine, “Donors Retain No Rights to Donated Tissue” argues that the boundaries of ownership and any other benefit obtained from the donated part are set just after the donation is made. It continues to explain that the law has not yet established any specific ownership rights in the donated body parts. The donor does not have any legal claim of the financial benefits henceforth accrued from the post processes. In this regard, several cases have been filed relating to the ownership of the cells and tissues. However, most of the cases have been disputed, and the jury culminates in the termination of the ownership of the donated parts just immediately the parts leave the body of the donor. The
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