How To Become An Organ Donor

Curtis Gano was only sixteen years old when he was hit by a car and killed while riding his bike. His parents were devastated. How could they go on? What could they do with the grief and despair of this magnitude? After much prayer, consideration and advice, Curtis’ parents decided to donate their son’s organs, as a way to give the gift of life to a stranger in the wake of their loss. After donating Curtis’ organs, four other lives were saved. Did you know that over 15,000 lives can be saved each year with organ donation? Unfortunately, 8,020 of these lives can not be saved because of religious beliefs and practices. While many religions encourage organ donation, some discourage it, and even consider it a crime. Because of the life saving

Thesis Statement: 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.

If I agree to donate my organs, the hospital won’t work as hard to save my life: When you go to hospitals for treatment, doctors focus on saving your life, not someone else’s, and the doctor in charge of your care has nothing to do with transplantation.

First, I will discuss the ever-growing need for organ donors in the United States, and the untrue claims against becoming one.

Over the years, organ donation challenges and demands increased inversely in proportion to the organ shortages. The primary mission of donor’s organizations is to save as many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives as possible with an end goal of giving these recipients a normal a life span. The significance of organ donation is to restore an ailing person’s quality of life. The ongoing issue of organ shortages may be a symptom of the current program that present an idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result, the mission and ultimate goal of organizations such as UNOS and Donate Life America, among others, is to obtain viable organs for their patients and to promote; education, empower altruism and establish quality ethics, and act as a resource for existing and potential donors.

Ultimately, being an organ donor saves lives and that itself is a gift of life. Life is not something you can get back that’s what makes life precious. For example, losing a love one is always a tough situation and knowing that you could have done something about it will haunt you for the rest of your life. Lifesaving organ is not only a problem for the U.S. but around the world. There are nearly 7,000 unnecessary deaths each for people not being able to receive these organs (Forbes). As humanity we have to take in consideration that we will not need organs in the afterlife. These very well organs don’t have to go to waste it can very well help a person in need of one. Organ donation is not an easy decision to make but this is the

I will be reviewing “Emerging Perspectives in Transplantation: Organ Donation Among Health Care Providers: Is Giving and Receiving Similar”, which analyzes the connection between the attitudes of health care providers toward receiving and donating an organ and how this varies among the different health care practitioners. Health care providers regularly encourage organ donation because they know the benefits that can derive from doing so. However, they also know the complications that can come from donating and receiving and organ such as future lifelong health problems, and a decreased life span. This article is very intriguing because it really makes me wonder about how people working in the medical field feel about organ transplantation

Bilgel (2012) points out it can lead to anti-donation feelings of citizens and then make people opt out more. For the public, the presumed consent organ donation might be considered utilitarianism, which seeks the greatest good for the greatest number. As Harris (1975) points out, it is just like killing one to save more people, which will be difficult for some people to accept. For example, Brazil passed Presumed Organ Donor Law in 1997, but it caused widespread public debates on the legal, ethical, religious, and civil ramifications of compulsory organ donation, the opponents thought organ donation should be voluntary instead of being compulsive (Andrea, 1998). Indeed, the law has not been implemented at last. Besides, Shaw (2013) asserts that some malicious doctors may abuse of power to make patients with lesser need receive organs more quickly than those with a large need. Just like the scandal happened in German in 2013, doctors who were bribed falsified medical records to make their patients’ conditions appear worse to get organs more quickly (ibid). For this reason, patients with worse conditions cannot receive organs in time, so the morbidity and mortality might increase more rapidly. Overall, public confidence needs more attention and research in opt-out organ

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

Becoming a living organ donor helps to increase the amount of organs that can be supplied to those who are in need of them. A living organ donor can be distinguished into one of three groups: they are involved in a direct donation, giving their organs to someone they choose such as a family member or a friend; they can be involved in a non-directed donation in which they give their organ to a national pool and it will be transplanted into a patient who is at the top of the waiting list; or a living donor can be involved with a directed donation to a stranger and in this case, the donor chooses to donate their organ to a specified person who they do not have any emotional connection with. (Truog, Robert D). Many ethical questions come into

Imagine yourself in a situation where your best friend got in a car accident and needs a kidney transplant. When the doctor receives the news that you’re the only applicable person because of blood type, all eyes are on you. What would you do? Would you give or keep? Savings lives can be something that is dreaded or heroic. In fact, each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants because of the generous. However, an average of 21 people die each day waiting for transplants that can 't take place because of the shortage of donated organs (Organdonor.gov). How can we fix this? Are you the friend that will give a helping hand or one that will run away? Currently, more than 120 million people in the U.S. are signed up to be a donor. But statistics can be hard to come by and something that can change the outlook on the way one looks at life is to recognize every number as a person. That person could be in need of a lifesaving transplant or a person who has legacy in being an active organ donor to many hoping for a favor in return. Not matter what, each number could be a mom, dad, brother, sister, grandparent, child or a best friend. What matters most is that number equals a life lost or lived by a transplant. Being a donor myself, there are many stigmas and false accusations about this topic and in becoming an organ donor after death it is not only an important decision for oneself to know the truth about this opportunity, but it is also one step closer to simply

The first step in becoming an organ donor is when an individual agrees to release their organs after death. Emergency personnel can recognize this by a certification on a driver’s license or a ‘dog tag.’ There are many reasons why someone would choose to become an organ donor; religion and

The donor has to believe that all life is sacred and that anyone who receives the “ultimate gift” of a donor organ will be grateful and be imbued with a sense of gratitude and a desire to pay it forward. According to the American Transplant Foundation, organ recipients are selected based primarily on medical need, location and compatibility. Although selections are based on who needs an organ immediately and compatibility, people are selfish and still focus on the fact that they will not know who their organs are going to and the unknown keeps them from becoming an organ donor.

As you read this, two people have just died. Within those two people is enough tissue to save as many as 100 lives and enough organs to save 16 of the 165,000 people waiting for a organ transplant in USA. Yet, not enough people are choosing to become organ donors, becoming an organ donor should be the choice that more people are making. Choosing to not donate your organs means that you are depriving someone of a live and researchers the materials to perform their investigations. Not only does organ donation save someone's life but you yourself will be able to morally benefit by granting someone with more time than they were give. 21 people per day die waiting for an organ, you could be the one to grant them more time, by saying yes.

Imagine you or one of your loved ones were on a waiting list for a new organ that you would not be able to survive without. You spent your days in the hospital hooked up to machines waiting for the doctors to walk in and say “we found an organ for you.” Do you think that this would influence your opinion on becoming an organ donor? It could happen to anyone of any age, race or gender. In fact, it is happening to many people right at this moment. “In Ontario we currently have 1509 people waiting for an organ transplant as of September 30th, 2017.” (“About Organ Donation” 2017).