Organ Donation After Death By Toni Gross

1. 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.

The introduction of organ donation to society has since been a groundbreaking medical discovery and life-saving procedure, portrayed in myths dating back to Ancient times, before the 16th century. Early performed procedures we’re primarily successful skin grafts and transplants among individuals in need. It wasn’t until the early 1900’s that doctors had been documented performing experimental and risky transplants from animal organs to save human patients suffering from renal failure. Though successful, none of these patients lived more than a few days after the transplants. It wasn’t until December 23, 1954, that the first truly successful kidney transplant, from a living donor, was achieved. Dr. Joseph

Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate.

Organ donations can be associated with controversial in the minds of potential organ donors, inhumane activity, dehumanizing processes, or even the circulation of illegal revenue. Conceptual changes need to be made consistent with altruism in order to produce the desired outcome of increasing the availability of desperately needed organs and tissues. While groups such as the mentioned above can act as a resource and clearinghouse mainly focusing on patient needs, organdonor.gov is run by the Federal Health Resources &

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate.

Organ donation begins with a person who recognizes an opportunity to help others, enrolls in a state donor registry, and shares the decision to be a donor with family members and friends. The culmination of

Organ donation started out as simply “donation” or the act by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the

There is a need of organ donors. People are add it to the waiting list every ten minutes. Also, the waiting time for organ transplant can take days, months or even years. Meanwhile, people are waiting for an organ that many times do not come on time. Sadly, people are dying, without hope. A person can donate organs such lungs, heart, liver, intestines, pancreas and kidneys. The process of organ donations is a voluntary act of enrolling in their state’s donor registry. And even more it is Free!

To begin, for many years organ donation has been an act of incredible generosity and the gifting of a life, as summarized in Sally Satel’s article “When Altruism Isn’t Moral” (226). The idea that someone would commit themselves to selflessly donating a organ to a patient, that in some cases the donor has no prior affiliation with the patient, may be heartwarming, but the method of helping those in need is becoming seamlessly more inadequate based on the rising death rate every year. Satel also goes on to state in her article the following:

Organ donation is a life-changing event for not only those receiving the transplant but also for the families of the donor. It gives a meaning to the end of someone’s life. The act of donating organs impacts many individuals even after the donor passed away. Everyone should consider being an organ donor because it is simple to become one, and the need is constantly growing.

When an individual becomes sixteen years of age, they are faced with a life changing decision: whether or not they should become an organ donor. While a person is deciding whether or not to become an organ donor for life, they are choosing to donate their organs to other individuals once they have passed away. Although an individual may not believe becoming an organ donor can have an effect on a person’s life, they are tragically mistaken. While the choice to become an organ donor has an effect on the donor’s family, it also has an unimaginable effect on not only the recipient’s life and the family’s lives as well.

Around the United States there are people needing an organ transplant. There are waiting lists for adults and children needing an organ. It may be difficult for some people to decide what would be right, if donation is the correct answer. Some people are not well informed on organ donations. Family members might not want for their loved ones to donate their organs. Why should we donate? If we are born with our own body parts why would we want to destitute them? These questions are a matter of debate, some people want to donate their organs to help someone.

Organ transplantation has been around for about 61 years. The first successful transplantation took place on December 23, 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. That transplantation being successful on that day has saved many lives to this day (“Transplantation”). The only legal way to get an organ transplant is through organ donation. In the United States alone, there are about 122,690 people on the waiting list today and only 10,051 donors. Every ten minutes, someone is added to the waiting list and 22 people that are on the waiting list dies everyday ("Organ Procurement"). There have been many debates on the matter of only being able to obtain an organ through donation. Some people believe that there should be a legal market to sell organs. In these debates, people must take other matters into consideration. The sale of organs may have an effect the environment, the different cultures, the economy, ethics, politics, or even science and technology. Weather these effects would be good or bad is up to debate.

On average, organs can be preserved for no longer than twelve hours outside of the body (“TransWeb.org”). With the lack of registered donors, it becomes difficult for a patient on the waiting list to receive an organ in time if their proximity to the needed organ and an organ transplant hospital is not in range of convenience. Most donors whose death’s occur by chance or accident, can not be preserved efficiently, meaning the organ will become of no use. Advocating the importance of organ donations will increase the chances for patients to receive the organ that will lengthen their

An organ transplant is a surgical operation conducted to replace an organ unable to function properly with a new one. An organ, in turn, is an accumulation of cells and tissues gathered to perform the functions of body. Therefore, any part of the body which acts as a performer of specific function is called an organ. There are two possible ways of how the organ donation (OD) can take place. The first is the donation of cadaveric organs (organs from recently deceased people). The decision to donate in this way requires the consent of a person in the form of an indication on the driver license, like in the USA (Gruessner, Benedetti, 2008, 54) or health care document as an organ donor card, in Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, for example