Chapitre 11. Regard philosophique sur le don d’organes du vivant et les particularités du don croisé.

Abstract

Organ donation confronts us with the reality of illness, with the horizon of death and with a material effectivity of corporeality, and at the same time it introduces the possibility of a gift of oneself going as far as the materiality of the organ. Such an approach associating donation and access to the body reality leads us to question the relation of the subject to others and to himself on the moral level: up to what point can one give a constitutive element of one’s body in order to care for another? Can the wish to save others surpass the search for individual preservation? Can organ donation be extracted from an economic system? We propose first of all to bring together conceptual elements for thinking about living organ donation, before focusing more specifically on the implications of cross-donation according to the new provisions of the 2021 Bioethics Law.