I won't argue over the intrinsic "value" they provide to the recipients of these organs, but the entire process for preserving and transplanting them is rife with moral and ethical dilemmas that can't easily be reconciled.
1. In the case of an organ harvested from a dead person, there is an underlying incentive to remove the organs while the donor is still alive under the normal, objective standards of defining death.
2. Even the simple act of a competent adult donating an "extra" organ has its problems. A doctor who performs a surgical procedure that neither treats the patient, makes the patient healthier (it actually makes the patient worse off), nor prevents or remedies any medical condition is violating the very first provision of the Hippocratic Oath ("First, do no harm ...").
say do what?
I didn’t see your reply before I posted my reply, linked below, re who pays for the costs of keep the donor “alive” until the organs are harvested.
Do you know the answer?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3113079/posts?page=15#15