Essay On Organ Shortage

Every ten minutes someone in need of an organ is added to the national organ transplant waiting list (Unos). The major problem with the transplant list is that it has been growing bigger and bigger every day and there aren’t enough organs to fill the needs of all these people. Although America is one of the most developed countries in the world, we lack organ donation policies. Unlike America and Germany, places like Austria, Finland, Greece, and Spain all have “Opt-out” laws, which helps raise the rate of organ donation drastically (Zúñiga-Fajuri). In recent years there has been a major decline in the amount of organs being donated; this can be blamed on how and where people are “dying” and the fact that they aren’t organ donors (Bryan). In order to

Today over 114,000 people are on the transplant waiting list (Unos). This is a major problem because at this point in time, with the policies that many countries have, there are never going to be enough organs to get the people off of this list. The organ shortage issue has become an “epidemic” throughout the world; “About 30 Americans a day either die on the waiting list or are removed from it because they have become too ill to receive a transplant” (Humphreys). If this doesn’t bring the problem of organ shortage to the eyes of the citizens or the politicians, nothing ever will. Innocent people are losing their lives every day because many countries have such poor laws on organ donation. Since January 2018, of the people who passed away throughout the world, only 4,109 of them have donated their organs (Unos). This a frighteningly low number of people considering how many organs are still needed throughout the world. We as a society need to figure out the best ways to get more people to donate their organs, or figure out ways to essentially make organs because people don’t deserve to lose their lives over one “bad”