Organ Donor / Donation Organization

3. Many stigmas related to organ donation - relatively false, and in order to be well informed, you must

Central Idea: Becoming an organ donor gives transplant recipients the gift of life and there are unnecessary barriers and misconceptions keeping people from becoming donors.

With people making important decisions about their body every day the subject of organ donation becomes increasingly important. For years, the topic has been the source of many controversial debates regarding its ethical and moral ideations. Organ donation should remain voluntary for several reasons: first and foremost it is still considered a donation. Next, patients and their families should have the right to say no to medical procedures. And, lastly, bodily autonomy should be respected by healthcare professionals. Many argue, however, that organ donation should be mandatory as to decrease not only the time spent on an organ donation list but also the risks of mortality while waiting for a new organ. Families often have the final say in

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

Thousands of individuals consent to organ donation on their drivers licenses each year; however, simply the indication that an individual is a donor on their license does not permit donation of that person’s organs. The process of becoming an organ donor requires individuals to continue to fill out detailed paperwork to be officially registered as a donor, which according to the American Transplant Foundation approximately seventy percent of Americans fails to complete the registration, with Iowa ranking among the worst of the states. As a result, thousands of potential donors end up not giving organs due to the unsystematic registry process. Journalist Joe Gardyasz who specializes in the research of the logic behind the organ transplant system,

Thesis statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die.

Organ donations can be controversial in the minds of potential organ donors due to 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. Groups such as the mentioned above can act as a resource and clearinghouse mainly focusing on patient’s needs. Organdonor.gov is ran by the Federal Health Resources & Services Administration and can act as ballast providing information geared toward donors such as

Every day, 20 people die because they are unable to receive a vital organ transplant that they need to survive. Some of these people are on organ donation lists and some of them are not. The poor and minorities are disproportionately represented among those who do not receive the organs they need. In the United States alone, nearly 116,000 people are on waiting lists for vital organ transplants. Another name is added to this list every 10 minutes. This paper will argue that organ donation should not be optional. Every person who dies, or enters an irreversible vegetative state with little or no brain function, should have his or her organs-more specifically, those among the organs that are suitable for donation-harvested. A single healthy donor who has died can save up to eight lives (American Transplant Foundation).

Uniform Donor Cards are obtained by checking a box titled “Organ Donor” when applying or renewing a driver’s license (Korschun, 2013). Generally speaking, 16 is the age at which the majority of the population applies for a drivers license. Do 16-year-olds understand all the implications associated with organ donation? Have they informed their family about their choice in becoming an organ donor? Or, was it simply something they thought was a good idea while they were filling out paperwork to get a divers license? Many people are unaware that the term “organ donor” can mean more than just donating a liver or kidney if declared brain dead. Organs and tissues that can be donated include: heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, cornea, skin, heart valves, bone, bone marrow, blood vessels, connective tissue, and stem cells (U.S. Government

Main Point 1: Organ donation is such a simple and selfless action one takes to save the lives of others. Now much of what we will we discuss, also applies to living donation, but we will focus on deceased donation. The number of patients waiting for organs far exceeds the number of people who have registered to become organ donors. According to UNOS, every 10 minutes, a new name is added to the national transplant list. 20 people die everyday from the lack of available organs. Just one deceased person, can save up to 8 lives, 9 lives if you split the liver. Now if you donate tissues, you can improve the lives of up to 50 people! The need for organ donation is growing every minute. You can see why we need to register.

Not only do I believe in organ donation for the obvious reason of saving people’s lives, but also I believe a part of myself will continue into the next generation, or I’ll leave a mark on the world. Though death is, in fact, frowned upon, in an odd way I can’t wait to donate, for example, my eyes to someone who has never seen anything before in their life. Not only that, but whenever someone will look into their eyes they will see a trace of

Organ donation has been on the downward trend in the last couple of years while the need for healthy organ donors are on the rise. On the average day, twenty-two people die while waiting on the organ transplant list. While it can only take one person to be a living donor to save a life, and in the case of being a donor after death, one person can save up to eight people. Since the gap between organ donation and the need for organs continues to grow apart, something has to be done to reverse this trend. People must be encouraged to become a living organ donor and to be an after death donor. The key to being an after death donor, is that the family members need to know about their loved one’s wishes and make sure to have a living will in place. Doctors are placed in that insensitive position to talk with the families after the death of loved ones, about whether the patient was an organ donor while trying to be considerate to their loss. There have been many ideas to help reduce the organ transplant list in order to preserve more lives, while educating the country on the importance of organ donations. To encourage more people to become an organ donor the United States Government needs to change the laws dealing with organ donations, in order to bring down the waiting periods on the organ transplant list.

The graph above represents the number of transplants performed each year for every organ provided. In 2008, over fifteen thousand kidneys and two thousands hearts provided new life through transplantation and given to patients in need. Thousands of transplants take place each year; however, the amount of patients on waiting lists continues to grow with forty-five percent of certain people remaining on transplant waiting lists. (Pros) The amount of people that require transplants becomes bigger every day. In 2009, the number of patients on waiting lists was over one hundred thousand while the number of donors remained under twenty thousand. (Pros) Everyday donors become a greater necessity in order to help others’ lives get better. However, when a person becomes a donor families may develop issues with the process that takes place before a donor becomes a qualified donor.

As a narrative manipulating the traditional conventions was required for one of the creating texts tasks, I chose to base my narrative around the idea of organ donation and change the perspective of the narrative from the first-person perspectives of different characters to a third person narrator. Organ donation was chosen as the base for the narrative text because I feel that it is a current issue in the world right now and often the target audience has only seen the one side of organ transplants which is the receivable of the organs. The intended audience of the narrative was individuals interested in the ethical dilemma behind organ donation. The intended audience age for the text was approximately 16 years or above although would be quite flexible depending on the maturity of the audience and the intended audience is not defined by gender. The purpose of the narrative was to educate the audience on the type of process some family members of organ donators literally have to go through and to emphasise the emotional build up to the final decision in many organ donations of a family member having to make the choice for someone else whom they love. The further purpose of the creative text was to inspire action out of the audience and to help them realise to importance of making a decision early on issues such as organ donation so that loved ones aren’t forced to make the decision for them.

Thesis Statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die.