According to the National Health Service, there are two types of organ donations, living and deceased. Nobody realizes what the numbers are and how many there are suffering. “Currently, nearly 124,000 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplants in the United States.” (Organ 1) According to The U.S Department of Health and Human Services, a person is added to the list every ten minutes. 79 people every day are saved by organ donation. (Need1) However, 22 people die waiting for a transplant because of a shortage of organs. (Need 1) Everyone will die one of two ways, either their heart will fail, or they will go brain dead. Many lives could be saved if people would step up and help. One 13-year-old girl helped saved 8 lives after passing from a brain hemorrhage. Jemima Layzell told her parents she wanted her body to help save others in the event of her death. “Her heart has gone to a five–year–old boy, a 14–year–old was given her lungs and her liver helped two boys, aged 10 months and five. Two people received her kidneys, a man was given her pancreas and her small bowel went to a boy, three.”(Teenage1) People who are willing to donate have a huge heart.…
It can help someone else because there are certain organs that you cannot live without, but of course it’s after the donor has passed away and is in good condition…
June 3, 1993, marked a day of tragedy for the Cassani family after their fourteen month-old son, Colby, drowned and later died. In mourning the parents of Colby chose to donate their son’s organs which saved the lives of three other individuals (“Colby Cassani”). From a sorrowful calamity of a lost life sprang a gift to those in need of the functioning organs. However, despite the lifesaving potential the newly deceased could offer, the topic of organ donation seems blissfully overlooked by the general public. Scarcely brought to the public’s attention, many individuals, ignorant of organ donations, are provoked to form speculations and myths about this charitable donation of life. Although the subject of organ donation is often disregarded by people and is deeply synonymous with several fallacies, everyone should become an organ donor due to this gift of life.…
Many individuals need a suitable organ donation as they have suffered from and organ failure disease, Australia currently has an opt-in organ donation system. At any one time, there are 1,700 people waiting for a suitable organ. These individuals wait, on average for four years for a suitable organ to be donated. 90% of Australians support organ donation, yet only 56% are registered organ donors. To allow an individual to die of a natural death and allow additional individuals to die, who could potentially…
Almost everyone would want to be able to say, “I have saved a life.” But by becoming an organ donor, you can be able to say, “I will save a life.” Organ donation is a selfless way to give back to others, and to be able to make a huge difference by giving another person a second chance at life. Unfortunately, the number of patients waiting for organs far exceeds the number of people who have registered to become organ donors. Patients are forced to wait months, even years for a match, and far too many die before they are provided with a suitable organ. There are many stigmas related to organ donation, but most of them are relatively false, and in order to be well informed, you must know what organ donation is, how it works as well as how you can become an organ donor and what organs or tissues you can donate. Becoming an organ donor after death is not only an important decision for yourself, but it is also an important decision for the life that you may have the power to save. (Finn, Robert)…
Because the need for organs is always present in our society, illegal organ trafficking is current and goes on every single day. At the same time, people who are legally and patiently waiting for an organ die in the process. Data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) shows that in 2010 alone, there were 90,000 patients waiting for a life-saving organ. From those on the waiting lists, there were only 17,000 transplants performed that year. About 10,500 of them were from dead donors while only 3,000 came from live donors. Meanwhile there were about 28,000 names removed from the UNOS waiting list. Want to know what happened to the other 11,000 patients? 4,600 names were removed because the patients died waiting while the other 2,100 names were deleted because the patients became too sick to withstand the transplant.…
“Each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants. However, an average of 21 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs” (The Need Is Real). There are many different views of the pros and cons that make up transplants of all kinds, from organ to bone transplants, and whether or not they should be allowed to be continued.…
Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are different: ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong. (Ethics and Morals, 2014) Within the world, there are a lot of contemporary issue that raise ethical and moral questions. Organ donation is a debate that is continually at the forefront of consideration in Australian. Sadly, an average of 21 people die each day because the organs they require are not donated in time. This then leads to people thinking and discussing through two ethical issue that arise. First is that ‘Do I donate my organs after death to help those in need’ and the second question is that ‘Do I give consent to a relative who has…
How do you feel when you’re waiting for something you really really want? Or what if it’s not even something you want, but something you need? Something you cannot live without? Now imagine yourself in a dark, gloomy hospital room waiting to receive an organ that is crucial to your survival? Imagine knowing that there are over 110,000 other people in the same waiting list. Unfortunately, this number far exceeds the number of people who have registered to become organ donors. And in 2011, only about 28,000 transplants were completed. Patients are forced to wait months and even years for a match, and far too many die before they have the chance to receive a suitable organ due to a lack of donors.…
Signing up to be an organ donor is one of the most generous things you can do — especially when you consider that a single donor can potentially save eight lives. That’s eight people who won’t have to spend agonizing months or years on the transplant waiting list, who will get a second chance, because you made the selfless decision to be a donor. More than 120,000 men, women and children currently need lifesaving organ transplants. Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant. In 2012, there were 14,013 Organ Donors resulting in 28,052 organ transplants. In 2012, more than 46,000 corneas were transplanted. More than 1…
* According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over 90,000 people wait for a new organ and close to 20 people die on an average, due to non availability of the organs.…
Intro: Imagine having to wait for something you really want. Could you do it, even if it took months or even years? Now imagine that it was something you literally couldn’t live without. Over 100 thousand people in the United States alone are waiting and have been waiting for organ donations that can save their lives.…
1. Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation into another. Organs you can donate include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, skin, bone, bone marrow, and cornea (the front part of the eye).…
According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services every 10 mintues another person in need is added to the Organ and Donor tansplant waiting list.…
Source 1: Rainbow raw author of the Organ Donation Should be Compulsory article, created on 30th May, 2012 discusses the forever asking question that all citizens should be made to donate their organs once deceased. The author addresses the topic with the use of statistics from the Australia’s organ donations site. Rainbow raw has no known qualifications or expertise; although the information provided is true and I believe reliable even though it is not from a registered site e.g. gov, edu. The author presented the information in exposition form with facts and their own personal opinion which outlines the science and religious sides of organ donation.…