Organ Donation Pros and Cons Organ donation is a noble act that makes a positive difference to the lives of many people by enabling them to lead a longer and a healthful life. Here ’s a bit about the pros and cons of donating vital organs and tissues of one ’s body. Quick Fact As an organ donor‚ you can actually save more than one life. In fact‚ a single donor may make a difference to the lives of about fifty people. Human organ failure has a long history. Since a long time‚ people have been
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IN HUMANS are two bean-shaped - about 4 inches long and about 2 ½ inches wide organs called kidneys which are located near the vertebral column at the small of the back . The main function of the kidneys are to purify the blood by separating urea‚ mineral salts‚ toxins and other waste products from it. Nature has so provided every human being a set of 2 kidneys so that blood purification runs on smoothly; one kidney assisting
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Organ Donation Speech by: Jason Caldwell Good morning‚ my presentation is going to be on the positive aspects of organ donation. First‚ I will explain the background and history of organ donation. Second‚ I will explain the importance of being an organ donor‚ and finally I will talk about the scientific importance of organ donation in our future. Back in the 1950’s‚ the very idea that an organ could be transplanted from one human being to another must have seemed like science fiction. It became
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becoming recipients(Washington post‚ 2014). Organ shortages seem to be a massive problem in the world today. According to the CDC‚ the most common transplants are the kidney‚ followed by the liver‚ heart and lungs (CDC‚ 2014). Deceased individuals only make up 1% of the donations‚ leading to an organ shortage today. This brings up several topics as to how these organs are obtained‚ and why certain types of people are getting better chances of getting the organs versus those who are not. One of the
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Donate Life 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 donors die without leaving instructions
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Organ donation should not be made compulsory No It Shouldn ’t Be Organ donation should not be compulsory because people have such little control of what happens to them in their lives‚ they should be able to control what happens to their bodies after death. There are many reasons‚ some religious‚ why a person would not want to donate their organs and those should be respected. Why Organ Donation Should be Made Compulsory Posted: 15/12/2011 00:00 React Amazing Inspiring Funny Scary
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need of an organ. This crisis within the United States is growing rapidly because on average there are only 30‚000 transplants performed each year. More than 6‚000 people die each year from lack of a donor organ‚ an average of 19 people a day. Between the years 1988 and 2006 the number of transplants doubled‚ but the number of patients waiting for an organ grew six times as large. It has been estimated that the number of organs donated would double if every person with suitable organs decided to
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of available donor organs provides little to no hope for patients wishing to have a chance at new life. According to the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance‚ there were 79‚466 patients on the U.S. National Waiting List as of January 1‚ 2002‚ with only 6‚148 donors in the country that year. In response to the organ shortage‚ scientists have made recent advances in transplant technology with the development of two new types of organ replacement: xenotransplantation and artificial organ replacement; the latter
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the issue of not legalizing the payment of donating organs. The National Kidney Foundation does not believe that the payment for organ donating will increase donations. The foundation wants to remain committed to helping people with donations. They believe that if it is legalized then disadvantaged citizens would take advantage of this opportunity that should only be done for the great feeling of it‚ and not the money. Sally Satel believes that organ trafficking should be stopped by legalizing some
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