Organ Donation

Get him into the O.R. stat! After applying yourself to be a recipient for a donation, you will be added to the waiting list for that organ. This can take months, if not years. Receiving an organ can be sudden whenever an organ match has been found for you. We should reevaluate organ donation due to someone’s personal religion, inability to benefit the poor, numerous hospital visits, and potential endangerment to their own well being.

122,542. That is the current amount of names on the national organ transplant list. Only about 6% of those people will actually go through a lifesaving organ transplantation within the next year (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 2015) due to the short supply of organ donations. Every ten minutes, another person is placed on the waiting list, and every day 22 people on that list die before they ever receive a new organ (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 2015). As a result, there is a very intense demand for human organs, but too little people are willing to donate them. The shortage of organs for transplant caused the emergence of organ trafficking which favors a wealthy minority of individuals and exploits the poor

First of all, everyone should be an organ donor because once you have died there is no need for your organs therefore rather than wasting useful organs they could be used to save another’s life. Statistics show that a single tissue donation can improve lives of 40 people and an organ can save 8. Donating your organs gives others an opportunity for a new life. In addition, after death, they would not be affected in any way with their organs gone and their families wouldn’t have an issue regarding this either because there is no cost. Once a person has deceased, hospitals notify the Organ Procurement Organizations and or Tissue/ Eye banks of death. The organs or tissues then get tested to determine whether the body will accept the organs or not. This step ensures considerably lower risks of the receiving patient’s body rejecting the organ or tissue. Donating

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, there are currently around 117,000 people with their lives currently on hold, hoping and praying for an organ transplant that will save their lives. Not only are those patients waiting on the transplant list lives impacted, but also the lives of the family and friends of those 117,000 men, women, and children who are also forced to patiently sit and wait, in hopes that their loved one is lucky enough to receive their vital organ.

Every ten minutes, another person is added to the active wait list for an organ donation. That is six people every hour, 144 every day, and 1008 every week. Approximately 120 thousand people need an organ transplant to survive. Of all of those people, only 79 thousand people are on an active wait list, while only 20 thousand transplantations have been completed this year. There are not enough donors to meet the current organ demand, and of those that do donate organs, the costs incurred by the donor do not equal the benefits. The current organ donation system operates under subpar economical standards, and should be revised to allow trade of organs on the free market.

Think of the most important person in your life. Now, image they come to you because they have something to tell you; they need a kidney transplant. Not receiving one means they have about five years to live, at most. Though, they are hopeful because they have been placed on the organ donor waitlist. They go on dialysis and the wait beings. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months into years. According to the Kidney Organization, the average wait time for a kidney is about 3-5 years. Unfortunately, your loved one does not receive the call, and when they are being laid to rest, you think, how could it have ended this way? Sadly, this ending is far too common for many individuals. Therefore, what can be done to prevent this

Organ donation is a successful process of removing tissues or organs surgically from one person to another (Cleveland Clinic, 2013). Many questions based on organ donation run along the lines of why people do not donate, but many do not realize that not everyone is allowed or able to donate because some people are not physically capable to have a successful transplant (Prigent et al., 2014). Meaning that the donor’s organs are too weak, or the donor’s organs are too old, in some cases the donor and recipient do not have the same blood type, which then causes alloimmunization (Kawano et al., 2014; Prigent et al., 2014). In the United States, there are more than 117,000 people waiting for an organ donor and 18 people on the waiting list die

Organ Transplants are done everyday, hearts, lungs, kidneys and so many more. The strange thing is people and scientist are beginning to think that possible memories are stored in these organs. People have began to show different characteristics after they have had an organ transplant surgery. Most scientist have had actual meetings with recipients and the donors to actually try and figure out why our organs are able to do this. Even though the research scientist have done does not fully say for sure whether or not this is actually a proven fact they are almost positive this could be the reasoning behind the recipients starting to have different characteristics in the way they live.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, every ten minutes a name is added to the National Transplant waiting list. As of December 1, 2015, there are 122,477 people that need a lifesaving operation and are on the transplant waiting list. While on the waiting list, there is an average of 22 people that die every day. So far, only 23,134 transplants have been done in 2015. (U.S. Depart.of Health and Human Services) This incredibly low number of transplants is why more people should become organ donors. Choosing to become an organ donor provides the opportunity to save up to eight lives and improve the quality of life for many others with tissue donation. An organ donor can also provide comfort to the grieving family: the loss of the loved one will be helping others to live. Becoming an organ donor is much easier than many think. The decision can literally be done in just minutes.

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.

“Currently, the need for organs vastly outpaces the available supply, with over 100 000 Americans waiting on an organ transplant waitlist.” The waitlist is probably an underestimate of the actual need, as many who would benefit from transplantation are never listed due to dauntingly long waiting times. But every 10 minutes another name is added to the organ transplant waiting list. “Sadly, an average of 21 individuals dies each day since the organs they need are not donated in time.” (Statistics 1) (Medscape

The donor is kept on life support however due to the organs having to be alive during removal and transplant. If the body is dead, the heart will stop pumping blood to all other organs, and eventually they will begin to shut down, making the organs essentially useless. They would be in no condition to function as normal in another body, hence why the donor must have blood pumping and kept on life support to keep the organs from dying or failing. Something many families also worry about is that doctors will not provide as much care, or make a big enough effort to keep them alive, for a donor since there is a high demand for organs for transplants. While this is mainly untrue, there have been cases of doctors purposely neglecting to give proper care to donor patients in fatal conditions, seeing that their bodies will be repurposed anyway. This is not right. People are people, and no matter whether they are a donor or not, they all deserve equal care. The donation is if they die after all efforts and resources have been used, their life shouldn't just be forfeit because a doctor decides their organs are “more

When people think of organ donation they may immediately wonder, “is the person still living when they take out the organ(s)?” And to be perfectly honest, it is all about perspective, but donation should not be put to the wayside because of the debate that still remains over the determination of death. For those who are confirmed clinically dead (the heart stops beating), they are hooked up to a ventilator to keep organs fresh, a method of momentary preservation until the needed organs and tissues are removed. Since the heart has its own pacemaker and the ventilator is providing the oxygen necessary for it to beat, it will remain beating, but there is no sign of brain activity. Their chest rises with each “breath”, their skin is warm to

Organ failure within today’s world typically means one of two things: a person is put on a waiting list in hopes for an organ match through a donation or they find a match for an organ through a family member or a friend. Within recent years, some have proposed other solutions to this issue, one being the selling of organs for monetary gain or through incentives. This has led some, such as Matthew Allan and Peter Reese to make claims that “current trends regarding the use of financial incentives in medicine suggest that the time is ripe for new consideration of payments for living kidney donation” (Mackellar 54). But what these two fail to see is what harm this suggestion would bring a natural law’s standpoint through a human’s right to flourish.

CONCLUSION: As you can easily see, donating your organs can be one of the most important decisions you ever make and also the greatest gift you could ever give.