Organ

A chance to save life As we all know when a person dies the body decompose which depend on the ground they are buried, or cremated based on the religion that person believed. However, instead of letting our healthy organs be eaten by insects and decomposing it we can try to save a person in need. Based on donate life America, an organizational team who support and encourage people to sign up to be an organ donor and according to their information and research there are more than 117,294 people of all ages and gender currently on the wait list for an organ transplant in United states concurrently. “The process of organ donation can save as many as eight lives through the surgical transplantation of organs from a donor of recipients. Most often donors are deceased, but some organs can be donated by living donors” (Orlowski).Organ donation is not something new in America or around the global. The following information about organ donation has been found by “Timeline of historical events”, the history of organ donation or transplant has started in 1869; skin transplant was the first transplant that was ever made. Since then it have continued this life saving method however, as time has progressed and life grew complicated people have changed. At the same time disease has also increased and people’s lives are at greater risk. In 1968 uniform anatomical gift act made a change to the donation process and it has been set that age 18 and older adult can sign up to be a donor when they sign up for any kind of identification document (i.e. ID, driver’s license, etc). As we see organ donation is the solution for all those people who need a transplant to continued, now let’s face the dark side of it. As the wait list for people who need a transplant increases; on the other hand, the rate for illegal organ harvesting increases in rapidly as well. “The illegal removal of human organ(s) and /or tissue without a person’s content; generally to be sold on the black market of