Blood Donation Persuasive Speaking
Persuasive Speech: Donate Blood
Summary: Objective essay to persuade people to give blood.
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to go out and give blood
Introduction:
I. Imagine your father has just suffered a heart attack and must undergo open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage.
II. Imagine your little nephew or niece baby was born with a heart defect and required daily transfusions of blood in order to have a chance at survival.
III. Imagine your best friend has just been diagnosed with leukemia, a disease requiring regular transfusions of platelets.
IV. Not very nice images are they, but these things happen and unfortunately some of you may even have experienced them already.
A. Naturally you'd hope and expect the hospital to have enough resources to facilitate the return to health, or to prolong their lives,
B. And naturally you'd want to do everything in your power to help.
V. There is one way you can help, that is by donating blood
A. Transfusions of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma are critical to a patient's return to good health,
B. And vital in helping to save someone's life in an emergency situation.
VI. Some individuals requiring blood are surgical patients; burn victims; accident victims; anemics'; hemophiliacs; seriously ill babies; and persons suffering from leukemia, cancer, kidney disease and liver disease.
Body:
I. It is estimated that in the United States, every three seconds a patient needs blood
II. That's a lot of blood
A. Sometimes the blood can be pre-donated by the patients themselves
B. However, most of the blood, needs to come from healthy volunteer donors
III. Yet only 5% of the eligible US population donates blood in any given year.
A. Healthy donors are the only source of blood.
B. As Blood can't be made or harvested, there is no substitute.
IV. The blood supply in the US is consistently low
A. And the demand for blood increases each year
B.
Summary: Objective essay to persuade people to give blood.
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience to go out and give blood
Introduction:
I. Imagine your father has just suffered a heart attack and must undergo open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage.
II. Imagine your little nephew or niece baby was born with a heart defect and required daily transfusions of blood in order to have a chance at survival.
III. Imagine your best friend has just been diagnosed with leukemia, a disease requiring regular transfusions of platelets.
IV. Not very nice images are they, but these things happen and unfortunately some of you may even have experienced them already.
A. Naturally you'd hope and expect the hospital to have enough resources to facilitate the return to health, or to prolong their lives,
B. And naturally you'd want to do everything in your power to help.
V. There is one way you can help, that is by donating blood
A. Transfusions of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma are critical to a patient's return to good health,
B. And vital in helping to save someone's life in an emergency situation.
VI. Some individuals requiring blood are surgical patients; burn victims; accident victims; anemics'; hemophiliacs; seriously ill babies; and persons suffering from leukemia, cancer, kidney disease and liver disease.
Body:
I. It is estimated that in the United States, every three seconds a patient needs blood
II. That's a lot of blood
A. Sometimes the blood can be pre-donated by the patients themselves
B. However, most of the blood, needs to come from healthy volunteer donors
III. Yet only 5% of the eligible US population donates blood in any given year.
A. Healthy donors are the only source of blood.
B. As Blood can't be made or harvested, there is no substitute.
IV. The blood supply in the US is consistently low
A. And the demand for blood increases each year
B.