Automatic Organ Donation Mandatory

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Automatic Organ Donation

Automatic Organ Donation should be mandatory. Donating organs you will be able to save lives and that will make you a true hero to that person and their family. People in every age give and receive donation in 2014 29,532 people received organ transplant. “Every 10 minutes people are being wait listed 22/79 die each day waiting for transplant. The government should make organ donation mandatory. People are dying every 10 minutes waiting on donors. As of 2014 30,032 people in the US. The list keeps getting bigger and bigger every year”. (organdonor) Automatic organ donation saves lives, there are 122,542 people who need organ transplant of those people there are 79,095 people actively waiting for transplant.

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