for an organ. 4‚000 more people are added to the national waiting list each day. One deceased donor can save up to 8 lives through organ donation and can save 100 more through the gift of tissue donation. Organs that can be donated after death are the heart liver kidneys lungs pancreas and small intestines. Tissue donations include corneas skin veins heart valves tendons ligaments and bones. There are also a small number of organs that come from healthy people. There are about 6000 transplants from
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Mechanical Organs Daily life for a person with naturally good health makes an average day possible‚ but a person with poor health due to internal organ problems can face many challenges. If a person has bad knees or poor eyesight‚ or even malfunctioning kidneys or heart‚ the only way to go about solving any one of those problems is to see a doctor and check out the options to fix the problem. Whether a person needs to be put on a transplant list or have surgery right then and there‚ it can be
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ORGAN DONATION Ladies and gentlemen‚ today I am here to share with you my views on organ donation‚ in the hope that you will take them on board and give someone the ultimate gift after you have left this earth - the gift of life. How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really‚ really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? Well‚ my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice
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Heart Valve Transplants The heart‚ the most important organ in the body‚ plays a vital role in a supplying the body with all of the nutrients needed. Not only does the heart pump blood through the body‚ but it also carries oxygen to help the body function correctly and it allows for the removal of waste product. Because the heart is so essential to human body‚ its structure and function is equally as important. The heart is designed to pump blood through its chambers. The top two chambers
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End of Life Issues Jermaine N. Hairston PHI 208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Craig Thompson May 12‚ 2014 Euthanasia means “good death” but today the term is deemed as a merciful action to rid someone of suffering. In many cases we have seen terminally ill patients euthanized active or passive‚ yet for the sake of my essay I will discuss active euthanasia. End of life issues is a topic many families are faced with everyday more than one likes to imagine; however‚ imagine that you
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for organ donors and it’s very simple to become one and help save a life. Transplantation gives hope to thousands of people with organ failure and helps provide new life for those living on borrowed time. Introduction “Life is like an onion‚ you peel it off one layer at a time‚ and sometimes you weep.” (Carl Sandburg) By this time tomorrow‚ eighteen people would have died because they did not receive a lifesaving transplant. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing
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article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” she offers compelling information which supports the claim that the buying and selling of organs is justified and should be regulated and legalized. MacKay points out that the current trade of organs through the black market is creating a dangerous and unsafe process where people of third world countries are potentially at risk of being unfairly treated and exploited. According to her article‚ over 60‚000 Americans alone on the waiting list for a transplant with
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medical ethics. It seems that each time a new form of technological advance is introduced many questions come to rise. Whether it relates to the well being of a person‚ or if this new technology is indeed morally right‚ the questions are still there. If you take a look at each time a medical advance in technology is discovered the same questions reoccur over and over with new question rarely arising. One example of a medical advance that stands out is that of organ donation. When organ donation
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demand for transplantable organs widens‚ the suggestion for legislation allowing an organ market becomes more popular. However‚ this proposal has been condemned by many as an unethical practice that allows the body to be devalued and seen solely as a commodity that is composed of marketable parts. In his article‚ “No such thing as ethical organ market”‚ Alastair V. Campbell explores the principles that drive the ban on organ trading and challenges the prospect of a live organ market due to its effect
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Section A - Organ Donation Summary of I’m donating my kidney to a stranger The text is written by Richard Wilson and was published in 2008. I’m donating my kidney to a stranger is about the determined woman‚ Paula MacKinnon‚ who is the altruistic organ donor in Scotland. At first Paula decided to donate her 68-year old mother‚ Kathrine‚ who suffered kidney failure. But Paula wasn’t able to donate her kidney to her mother‚ because their blood groups were not compatible. But Paula would not
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