Persuasive Speech On The Transplant Waiting List

INTRODUCTION
How many people are actually on the transplant waiting list? How many people are able to find the correct match and receive the transplant?
THESIS STATEMENT: With the information I am about to give you, hopefully you would become a registered donor and save many lives after your death.
BODY
There are 120,000 people on the waiting list to receive an organ transplant.
Each day about 22 people die from either waiting or cannot find a correct match to get a transplant.
In a year span over one thousand lives were taken.
Even if they are able to find a match.
If that was you or someone you loved that was on the waiting list wouldn't you want someone to donate?
TRANSITION: They still have a slim chance that the new organ would not
If you think about that, you could be giving someone else a second chance at life.
You could be helping someone out to become their self again.
They would not have to live in fear about not finding a match or running out of time.
Wouldn't you feel good about yourself if you knew that you were able to help someone in need.
You would be helping them out by giving them your organs once you have no need for them.
TRANSITION: Why would you not donate to help save another's life?
IV. Most organ donations occur after the donor has died but could still be performed when you are living.
When you are “living donor” and you are wanting to donate, it's a big risk.
As a living donor you can donate a kidney, lung, intestine, blood, bone marrow, or part of your liver.
5,000 living donations occur each year.
One in four donors are not biologically related to the person they donate to.
A living donation is a major surgery. All of the same complications in other major surgeries still occur.
Some of the complications you risk are having is pain, infection, blood clots, and many more. Long term organ donor complications are issues with your lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and
TRANSITION: Remember if you are going to donate make sure you have registered.
IIV. When donating your organs after death, you have to be registered. It would cost you nothing to register.
To sign up to become a donor you could sign up online or at your local DMV.
If you choose to sign up online it would only take a few minutes.
Once you have became a registered donor then you would have to show a form of information.
That information could be your driver's license. If it only takes you a couple minutes to become a donor then you should do it. Think how many lives you could save if you were a organ donor.
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion it is you choice to donate your organs or tissue as a “living donor” or upon death. I feel that organ donation is something every healthy person should commit to doing. If someone you love was in need of a transplant you would want them to have the opportunity of life. In my research I found that their are many people in need of transplants. Their are more people in need of a transplant then there are donor available. After hearing the statistics of my speech. Do you feel obligated to become an organ/tissue