Organ Donation

1. 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.

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

Bharambe describes how his medical students were given a survey about the knowledge of organ donation. The participating students had a positive attitude about donation, because of their higher knowledge of this procedure. “Organ transplants have been one of the best medical advances in history,” according to Bharambe. Transplants give a recipient another chance at a healthier life. A person who has been declared braindead can donate up to thirty organs. The more positive side of organ donation will hopefully convince more people to consider being a donor.

More people should consider being an organ donor because they can save up to eight lives. Organ donation does not cost the patient or their family anything. Organ donation is only considered after every lifesaving attempt has been made.

Organ transplantation is defined as a transfer of a living tissue or organ to an injured or sick person. This will help restore the health or reduce the disability of the person receiving the transplant. In the 1900’s, organ transplant work was done on animals in the name of research. The first organ transplant from a dead person to a live human being failed in 1930. Even though this organ transplant failed, it still brought hope and a chance for a new life for people needing new organs. Today organ transplantation has become a common surgery for the 21, Century. Cross typing blood, blood preservation and blood transfusions have been instrumental in organ transplantation. They were widely used during World War II by Dr. Emmerich Ullmann, who experimented on dogs with kidney transplants and found that the

The above scenario is just one of many that occurs every single day in this world, in all walks of life. Whether one has already chosen to become an organ donor or has reservations about donating tissues and organs, it can be a sensitive subject to many. There are many legitimate fears and myths behind organ donation and the recovery of organs – anywhere from those that believe it is against their religion to the actual process itself, discussed as follows.

There is no cost to donors or their families for organ or tissue donation. It's illegal to pay someone for an organ.

Organ donations not only save lives but also money and time. If organ donations became prevalent the organ recipient would no longer need dialysis. Since there is no need for dialysis the cost to use the machine would lessen; this means that the cost of equipment would decrease, saving the hospital and insurance company’s money. More lives would be saved as well as benefit from those that no longer need an organ. In the book titled “Elements of Bioethics” adult organ transplants are only that have medical insurance. If organs are taken from recently deceased the cost for those that has no medical coverage was lessen. The process of organ transplantation is life changing and time is crucial. With shorter waiting time it would put ease on the person’s heart to know that this lifesaving event would happen sooner rather than later. In addition, when the organ is taken from the recently deceased the risk would be eliminated from

Organ donation is an amazing gift a person can give to someone after they have passed away. When I was in high school, a student passes away from a terrible accident. His family donated some of his organs, and he was able to help over 20 people by this generous donation. It also helped the family cope with the loss of their son and brother. Organ donation is positive thing in a tragedy, and can save many lives. This important to me because there are so many people who are needing organs. One of the main reasons I am going into nursing is because I love helping others. By being an organ donor, I am able to help people even after I have passed on.

The world has been around for a long time and never has there been a need for organ donation as there is now. When a person’s organ is failing from disease, they are placed on the transplant list. An organ transplant is define as one organ is taken from a donor and put in a recipient’s body to replace the diseased organ. Organ transplantation is a life-giving gift to a dying person. In 1988, between kidneys, lungs, heart, and liver, there were 12,301 transplants performed and 15,638 organs needed (Kaserman, Table 1&2, 2007). In 2003, between those same organs, there were 23,941 performed, a total of 84,951organs were needed to fill the waiting list (Kaserman, Table 1&2, 2007), and the

Although many people think that if you are an organ donor doctors won’t try as hard to save your life, but that is not the case at all. According to an article from World of Health “A wish to donate organs for transplant will not reduce efforts to save a patient’s life. Organs will not be removed until all life-saving efforts have

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.

Nearly eight thousand people are dying each year waiting, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which means that an average of twenty two people are dying each day in the United States alone because of the lack of donor organs (UNOS, 2016). Transplantation might be one of the greatest successes in the matter of therapy for those suffering from organ failure or disease. Organ transplants have made the health field able to treat diseases that once were fatal. Nowadays, there have been a considerable amount of people who have benefited from this advancement. For some, an organ transplant has meant an improvement of their life quality, while for others it has gone further from that to being considered a lifesaving operation. In many

According to United Network for Organ Sharing (2010) organ donations and transplantation are the removal of organs and tissues from one person and placed into another person’s body. The need for organ transplantation usually occurs when the recipient organ has failed (UNOS, 2010). Organ donation can save the lives of many individuals who are on the waiting list for an organ donation. Becoming an organ donor can be a difficult decision. Many people have the false beliefs about being an organ donor. An example would be if organ donor is on their driver’s license and a person is in a life-threatening accident everything will not be done to save their life. There is an increase need for organ donors and unfortunately the need for organ

Main Point 2: Myths, we have all heard some, we have all believed some. But right now, I am going to set the record straight about some of the misconceptions surrounding organ donation. Organdonor.gov will tell you about many facts and myths about organ donation. So let’s start with money. I’m sure you have all heard that when a someone donates their organs, their family has to foot the bill for all it. That is completely false. There is no cost to donors or their families for organ or tissue donation. Hence the word “donation”. The donor won’t be able to have