Persuasive Speech Outline

Specific Purpose: I want to educate my audience about organ donation matching process, the requirements to donate and to receive organs, and how donations can be found.

Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech my audience will consider donating their organs and tissues after death and to act upon their decision to donate.

“There is a need to instil in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor.” Pope John Paul II stated in the Address to International Congress on Transplants. In a culture of death and self-centeredness it is important to prompt the youth to consider becoming an organ donor. The number of people in need of a transplant is growing quickly, and already is at a large rate. Eighteen people will die each day waiting for an organ transplant; more must be done to help these people, yet it must be within the standards of medical ethics.

Today I will explain the need for organ donors, how you can become an organ donor, and finally, how ones decisions can and is affecting society.

Preview: today I would really like to speak to you about the need of organ donors all over the world, how you may come to be an organ donor when you die and in the end, how your own family and organ donor recipients gets advantage from your donation.

Thesis: ​Organ donation is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ and transplanting

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.

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

I will tell you why organ donors are life savers, how you can become one, the commons myths and Why this topic is very important to me

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

Relevance statement: Some of you might be organ donor or might know someone who is an organ donor. Credibility statement: I have done extensive research on organ donation and also have a cousin who had to wait for a year and half for kidney transplant. Thesis: Lack of organ donors is a serious problem in US and donating organ can give someone the gift of life.

Organs that can be donated include the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and small intestines. Organs are used to save lives by replacing diseased organs with healthy ones. One organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people. When someone is able to donate organs and a person who needs the organ receives it, many new doors for that person are open. Critically ill children who undergo organ transplants today are more likely than ever to recover and return to their schools, playgrounds and a quality of life that in many cases is virtually indistinguishable from that of friends who have never faced a life-threatening disease. Cory Scott is living proof. The 15-year-old returned to his Jacksonburg, W.Va., home less than two months after his heart, ruined by cardiomyopathy, was replaced with a donor heart at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on Aug. 15, 2002. He had been kept alive on a mechanical ventricular assist device for several weeks before the surgery. People who need an organ transplant are usually very ill or dying, because on or more of their organs is failing. They range from babies and children through to older people. People needing a tissue transplant cane be of any age. In some cases, tissue transplant can be of any age. IN some cases, tissue transplantation can save lives. More often, it greatly improves the recipient’s life. Also many people are on

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.

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

a) Attention Getter. Hi my name is, Lizette Vazquez, and I am here to talk to you about becoming an organ donor. Many people wait for years for organs to become available, the need for organ donors is growing. Donate and save a life. If you had a chance to save a life and or change their life, would you do it? If you answered no, to this question would your feelings change, towards organ donation if someone in your family or close to you need an organ transplant? Can you imagine, what it would feel like to get handed a death sentence like this and to know there is millions of people capable of saving a life and no one is stepping up. Many of these people waiting can have a happy ending to their story. However, the