change the lives of up to fifteen people? How? By carrying one of these‚ an organ donor card. Donating organs is a chance to give the gift of life‚ and not just to one person. For example‚ last year alone 247 donors gave 799 Mexicans a new chance in life. Seven hundred and ninety-nine lives is an amazing figure‚ and I cannot possibly describe what an amazing gift those people and their families receive. However‚ we need to do better because we still have people dying on waiting lists. Let’s imagine
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information about organ donation found in the extracts of articles by Boyle (2006) and Wilkinson (2008). It is an overview of facts and opinions of people who support and who oppose organ donation. Boyle (2006) outlines firstly‚ on her article the positive side of organ donation. She tells that you can always find a life saving experience out of thousands of people because an organ was donated. She says that people take these experiences as a very strong reason to donate. Many people on the other
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Section A - Organ Donation Summary of I’m donating my kidney to a stranger The text is written by Richard Wilson and was published in 2008. I’m donating my kidney to a stranger is about the determined woman‚ Paula MacKinnon‚ who is the altruistic organ donor in Scotland. At first Paula decided to donate her 68-year old mother‚ Kathrine‚ who suffered kidney failure. But Paula wasn’t able to donate her kidney to her mother‚ because their blood groups were not compatible. But Paula would not
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Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate. Thesis Statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention material/Credibility Material: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really‚ really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? Well‚ my cousin was five years old when
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Organ Donation Organ donation is defined as the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body‚ from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation (Wikipedia). The first organ transplant took place in 1954‚ when 23-year-old Ronald Herrick gave his identical twin brother‚ Richard‚ a kidney ("Curiosity.com"). The need for donations is growing every year. Over 100‚000 Americans are on the waiting list in need of an organ. This crisis within the United States
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someone after you have passed on. Organ and tissue donation is a topic that does not get enough attention. "Ninety-five percent of Americans say that they support donation yet the number of registered donors is much smaller (www.organdonor.gov). " Anyone can sign up to be a donor. After death you can donate your organs. Each day 18 people will die waiting on organs. Tissues are also able to be donated. The age of donation do not matter. Some mothers donate the blood of the umbilical cord after
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Specific Purpose: By the end of my presentation‚ the audience will donate their organs and tissues when they die and act upon their decision to donate. Introduction 1 Attention Getter/Credibility Statement: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really‚ really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? Well‚ my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice during a six moth span
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POSITION PAPER: ORGANS DONATION The aptitude to transplant organs and the rest from a person to another person‚ it’s the best achievement in medicine. Notwithstanding having more technology the illnesses have increased too and now there are still many people waiting for a transplantation to save their life nevertheless the necessity for donor organs is much higher than the proposal. We have heard about donations and transplants and the percentage of those who do have gone up regarding to the past
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Importance of Organ Donation Each day approximately 6‚300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are 83‚513 people waiting for organs to be donated‚ yet each day 17 people die because they do not receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need. The sad truth is though‚ because of the lack of people willing to donate organs‚ many people
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The organ shortage: To market‚ or not to market? Organ transplantation is a term that most people are familiar with. When a person develops the need for a new organ either due to an accident or disease‚ they receive a transplant‚ right? No‚ that ’s not always right. When a person needs a new organ‚ they usually face a long term struggle that they may never see the end of‚ at least while they are alive. The demand for transplant organs is a challenging problem that many people are working to
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