You are a skilled doctor, with five patients who all need different organ transplants. There are currently no organs available to give them, and if they don’t get their transplants soon they will all...

You are a skilled doctor, with five patients who all need different organ transplants. There are

currently no organs available to give them, and if they don’t get their transplants soon they will

all die. You have a sixth patient, who is in the hospital for a minor procedure. She would be a

perfect donor match for the five people needing organs. Should you take the sixth’s patients

organs in order to save the five people on the organ transplant list? Why or why not?

Would it make a difference if the sixth patient is a horrible human being without any friends or

family that would miss her?

Would it make a difference if the sixth patent does not have much longer to live herself?