the lives of others” (Pericles). Organ donation is the process of one human being donating his or her organs to another human being in need. Which is very often since on average 22 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. With that being said every 10 minutes a patient is added to the waiting list. While on the waiting list there is no guarantee that the patient will receive a transplant. To top it off there is a 1:8 ratio with organ donation. That means mean one organ donor can save
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percent will die without ever receiving a transplant. This could change if more people donate. One person who donate can save up to eight lives with organ donation and more then hundred lives with tissue. If more people were educated on the different they could make with donating‚ I feel it would have a more positive outcome. Blood and Organ donation is not really discussed as much as it should. There are pros and cons to donating just as there are for everything else. The cons of donating that most
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pledger like me. 3. Malaysia having an opt-in organ donation system is among the lowest rate of organ donation in the world based on 2010 World Health Organisation (WHO) report which is far cry in comparison from other Opt-out organ donation system countries. (Transition: Therefore‚ I am here today to bring all of you here to support Opt-out system for organ donation rather than Opt-in organ donation system that we are currently using as opt out donation system saves time‚ increase life expectancy of
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medical advancements and my specific area of expertise is organ donation. Slide 1 A little bit of background about organ donation is in 1954 on December 23 the first full transplantation was the kidney. Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston led the procedure. The kidney was removed from Ronald Herrick and transplanted into his identical twin brother Richard Herrick. Slide 2 Myths about organ donation is some people hesitate to become organ donors because a lot of
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American Society of Transplant Surgeons‚ 2014). People would most likely be more willing to donate their organs if they were provided some type of compensation‚ but is this ethical? What if people want to donate but their organs are not viable for donation? Another issue that arises is the idea that people will take the money for donating‚ but then when it comes time to donate they might back
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you ever dreamed for one second of saving someone’s life? Have you ever said: ‘I want to be a hero? Well ladies and gentlemen‚ today I bring you an easy way to check this task off your bucket list. It’s called: BLOOD DONATION. I am going to show you today the importance of blood donation on your body but first I am going to tell you if you are eligible to donate. As you all know there are different blood types. Here you can see a table of the varieties of blood types. People with type A can give to
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Why organ donation is important? Did you know that seventeen people will die today? They will not die because they were in a car wreck‚ involved in a shooting‚ or because it was simply that their time had come. Seventeen people will die because they couldn’t get an organ transplant in time. Money’s not the issue here. Neither is scarcity. There are potential donors who pass away every day who could meet the needs of people on the waiting list. The problem is the potential
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Saving Lives When Is It Ethical The decision to be an organ donor is not an easy decision to make‚ but the donor has the easiest part of the donation process. The decision of when to extract the organs usually falls on the family and the attending physician. The question since organ donation began has always been when are you really dead? This one question has been an ongoing controversy not only with the public‚ but with churches‚ and the government as well. The government has tried to put rules
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Outline Persuasive Speech Topic: Organ Donation Post Mortem Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to consider becoming an organ and tissue donor after death. Thesis: Organ and tissue donation isn’t just an important decision for yourself‚ but it can also impact and save the lives of so many more. Intro: Imagine having to wait for something you really want. Could you do it‚ even if it took months or even years? Now imagine that it was something you literally couldn’t live without. Over 100 thousand
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Organ donation for transplantation has become altruistic worldwide. All organ donations have become altruistic‚ meaning that there are no financial incentives to people who are willing to have their organs or organs of their deceased family members used for transplants. During the past two decades
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