Introduction A. I want your body, ok not your body just your organs! B. The need for organ and tissue donation is increasing and the people on the lifesaving transplant list need your help. About a year ago, I had the privilege of, meeting a man who was in his late sixties, a real jokester, and a person who really enjoyed life. He was a person that could make you smile even if you were in the worst of moods. Well, when I met this man he had been on the liver lifesaving transplant list for almost two years. He was getting sent in and out of the hospital and needed daily dialysis to drain the fluids from his body because his liver was no longer able to perform this task; his liver was literally shutting down. This courageous man eventually …show more content…
Organ and tissue donors give the greatest gift, the gift of life. A. One important detail about organ and tissue donation is that you do not need to be dead in order to donate your organs or tissue. B. In fact, about 5,000 living donations occur each year. C. You do not even need to be related to the recipient waiting for the organ donation. Actually one in four donors is not biologically related to the recipient. D. Did you know that there are twenty- five organs and tissues that can be used for transplant? a. Some types of the organs used for transplant include the heart, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and small intestine. b. Tissues used for transplant include the eyes, skin, veins, heart valves, tendons, ligaments and bones. E. Organs and tissues are distributed according to a national waiting list managed by UNOS which stands for United Network for Organ Sharing. F. Since you don’t need your organs after you are dead your family could take comfort knowing that your organs can save up to eight lives through organ donation and can save and enhance more than 100 lives through the lifesaving and healing gift of tissue
A organ donation is where you take the healthy tissue from one person and transplant is to another person. The types of organs that can be donated are kidneys, heart, liver,pancreas, intestines, lungs, skin, bone marrow, and cornea. Your liver, kidneys, and bone marrow can be donated by a living donor. Your lung, heart, pancreas, intestines, and cornea come from a deceased organ donation. Database has listed al...
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Imagine your laying in a hospital bed hooked up to various machines. The doctors and nurses are persistently coming in to check up on you while you’re trying to get through the pain, weakness and slow wasting away of your body. On top of that you are grieving the side effects from numerous drugs, constipation, restlessness, you can barely breathe. You have no appetite because you are constantly throwing up. The doctors have given you little to no chance of survival; and death is at hand, it is just a matter of when. You have said your goodbyes, you have come to terms with dying and you are ready to meet your creator. Now if you had the chance to choose how and when your life ended would you take advantage of it?
Organ Transplantation is often the best way of saving human life when a vital organ
Today in the United States approximately 100,000 people are on the notional waiting list for organ transplants. The federal government of the United States has appointed a non-profit organization called the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) based out of Virginia to allocate organs as in the United States. As it stands the policy states that matching organs with recipients is based on the length of time a person has waited on a list and how sick a person is. The country is divided into eleven different regions. One an organ becomes available in a certain region it is offered to the first person on the list for that particular organ in the region. In the unlikely event it is not able to be received by somebody in its region the organ is offered nationwide. For an organ to become eligible for transplant it either has to be donated from a...
C. By becoming an organ donor, you could save a life of a deserving person.
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How To Save A Life: The Importance of Organ Donation Like an argumentative essay, the objective of a visual argument is to take a position on a message or issue and convey that message to a desired audience. This is accomplished for a variety of reasons: to sell a product, refute another argument or position, or raise awareness on a subject. Visual arguments are effective because as the timeless idiom goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. The mission of this visual argument by France ADOT is to present the overarching thesis that thousands of people owe their lives to organ donors, but instead of creating a page full of words, they used powerful imagery and text that appeals to human empathy in order to generate interest and attain their goals. The French Federation des Associations pour le Don d’ Organes et de Tissus hommes (ADOT) is an organization within France that advocates for more organ donations and research throughout France and the world.
The feeling of selflessly giving someone a second chance in life is incredible. You have the chance to do this by becoming an organ donor. Being an organ donor makes you a lifesaver before you even save someone’s life. My goal for tonight is to persuade you all to become organ donors if you’re not already one. I will ...
2. People should give blood because it is easy and though there might be a little pain involved it is worth it because it saves so many lives and you get great snacks.
It is clear that a large demand for organs exists. People in need of organ donations are transferred to an orderly list. Ordinarily, U.S. institutions have an unprofitable system which provides organs through a list of individuals with the highest needs; however, these organs may never come. A list is
One of the most important and prevalent issues in healthcare discussed nowadays is the concern of the organ donation shortage. As the topic of organ donation shortages continues to be a growing problem, the government and many hospitals are also increasingly trying to find ways to improve the number of organ donations. In the United States alone, at least 6000 patients die each year while on waiting lists for new organs (Petersen & Lippert-Rasmussen, 2011). Although thousands of transplant candidates die from end-stage diseases of vital organs while waiting for a suitable organ, only a fraction of eligible organ donors actually donate. Hence, the stark discrepancy in transplantable organ supply and demand is one of the reasons that exacerbate this organ donation shortage (Parker, Winslade, & Paine, 2002). In the past, many people sought the supply of transplantable organs from cadaver donors. However, when many ethical issues arose about how to determine whether someone is truly dead by either cardiopulmonary or neurological conditions (Tong, 2007), many healthcare professionals and transplant candidates switched their focus on obtaining transplantable organs from living donors instead. As a result, in 2001, the number of living donors surpassed the number of cadaver donors for the first time (Tong, 2007).
Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience about the criteria for becoming a blood donor
The Importance of Organ Donation Each day approximately 6,300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are 83,513 people waiting for organs to be donated, yet each day 17 people die because they do not receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need. The sad truth is though, because of the lack of people willing to donate organs, many people will continue to wait for organs to save their lives. ? Waiting lists of patients for organ transplants become longer as the need for transplantable organs increases? (Sheehy 1).
Each day, 120 people are added to the ever-growing organ waiting list. An astonishing 41% of these unfortunate people, that's about 50, will die due to the lack of donor organs in ... ... middle of paper ... ... nd of donor organs.