Dozens Offer Kidney to Mourning

Alonzo Mourning, forced to retire from the NBA last week with a life threatening kidney disease, has received dozens of offers from people willing to donate their kidney for Mourning’s use. While this is very admirable, it creates an ethical dilemma. 17 people die each day because a donated kidney is not available. Should Mourning get a kidney that someone specifically donates to him? Or should he be forced to wait on the list like everyone else? I can’t seem to make up my mind on this one. On the one hand, those people waiting for several years deserve a donated kidney just as much as Mourning does. On the other hand, if it’s your kidney, and you want to donate it to a specific individual, why shouldn’t you be allowed to do just that? What do you think?