How Organ Donations Changed A Person's Life

Decent Essays
Organ donation is a very good thing in my opinion. Obviously from the stories that this website gives us are very powerful. A donation changed many people’s lives, like the veteran, or Brooklyn or anyone who has gotten a donor. I’m sure that their lives have changed for the better and that they are very appreciative of the donors. Obviously a lot of people have donated, according to the video, the US had more than 30,000 donors. Keep in mind that it has never been over 30,000 before so it is a record. This year there was 30,973 transplants. Hopefully the record just keeps on going up and up. Also 350 organs of the 30,973 came from Utah and that’s a very good number knowing that we don’t have quite as many people here as all of the big time states. I think being a donor is a very important. I mean from my perspective I see why not? I mean if your going to die, you might as well let someone else live the life that they are meant to have or at least help someone live and experience the things that they want to experience. I don’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to be a donor. On my learners permit I put me as a donor just cause I think it’s the right thing to do.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Mary Roach's Stiff Essay

    • 1177 Words
    • 5 Pages

    According to organdonor.gov, every 10 minutes, a new person is added to the organ transplant list (“The Need Is…”). That’s 144 people each and every day. With the help of human cadavers, those 144 people can be helped and be given the opportunity for a more prolonged life. Mary Roach uses her book, Stiff, to inform people of the impact that their body and organs can have on so many people’s lives.…

    • 1177 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Becoming an organ donor takes one signature and about thirty seconds of your time, but these thirty seconds can change someone's life one day. The best part about organ donation is that you are ultimately giving someone a life because without the organ they’re receiving they wouldn’t be able to live. We need more people to become organ donors so the countless number of people per year won’t die because they didn’t receive an organ. Please note, organs are only removed from a person after every other life-saving procedure has been attempted. To sum up, it is very important to increase the number of organ donors, so go save a life and become an organ…

    • 944 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Truth Behind Purchasing Illegal Organs for Transplant The US Department of Health and Human Services reports that an average of 22 people die every day waiting for a donated organ (HRSA). As a result, desperate and wealthy people are willing to pay thousands for black market organs. An illegally purchased kidney alone sells for between 30,000 and 100,000 in America (Interlandi, 2009). However, the donor is likely given less than a tenth of that money.…

    • 1744 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In addition, there were nearly 6,000 transplants from living donors,”(Statistics, n.d.). This statistic shows that a person doesn’t have to be deceased to make…

    • 1577 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Since many people are unaware of organ donation, it is up to nurses and other health care professionals to advocate for the community. According to the World Health Organization, “Advocacy is a combination of individual and social actions designed to gain political and community support for a particular goal. Action may be taken by, or on behalf of, individuals and groups to create living conditions which promote health”(WHO, 2005). Without advocacy the community is unaware of the effects that is has on one individual’s life.…

    • 204 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    d. Luckily, thanks to science, when you become an organ donor you can save up to 8 lives and enhance up to 50 lives through tissue donations. e. For example, with 2 lungs, 2 kidneys, a pancreas, liver, heart, and intestinal organs you can save the lives of 8 different…

    • 831 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This way the donor saved a life and either themself or loved one is saved in the process. A few hospital have adopted this practice, the donors do not get paid but in the long run it is a great help. Both sources talk about how many people need a transplant or are on the transplant list. The article says the 13 people die a day waiting for a transplant and that 3,000 people are added to the kidney transplant list each day. Over 4,000 people in need of a kidney died in 2014 while waiting for the transplant.…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A study conducted at the University of Chicago by Alberto Abadie and Sebastien Gay, over organ transplantation systems, came to the conclusion that about eighteen people die a day due to the failure of receiving organs. That is eighteen lives that could be saved by healthy organs of a deceased person! Farrell, Price, and Quigley have argued that the “number of heart-beating donors have reduced as a result of fewer young people dying…

    • 932 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Sometimes life just takes your breath away, doesn’t it? ( Reilly line 23) Being able to donate organs to save a life is heroic. Many ask about the ethical part of donating an organ, but it is not their position to dictate a person’s actions. The United States was founded on freedom of the people. Why hinder a person’s ability to donate his or her lungs to someone in dire need of it?…

    • 223 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ethical Organ Donation

    • 1514 Words
    • 7 Pages

    A Policy Proposal for Ethical Organ Donation It is estimated that there are around one hundred and twenty thousand patients waiting on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. The demand for healthy, fresh, and, new organs is high. “According to the National Health Services Blood and Transplant, more than twenty-two million people have pledged to help others after their death by registering their wishes on the National Organ Donor Register. Despite the high number of registered donors, most will sadly die in circumstances where they are unable to donate their organs” (Griffith, R. 2016).…

    • 1514 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    November 16, 2017 will be a special day not only because I will turn eighteen, but also because I will register as a organ and tissue donor, ensuring my opportunity to extend someone else’s life on this earth after my own has passed. Until I saw this scholarship opportunity, I had not given organ and tissue donation much consideration. I recalled a poster at the highway patrol that caught my attention as I waited to take my driver’s license test. It read, “Tired of waiting? Imagine waiting on your life,” or something like that.…

    • 351 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If every eligible deceased patient was a registered organ donor, they would have the possibility of saving the lives of every person on the organ transplant wait list: giving over one hundred and twenty-two thousand people a second chance at life. The American government should take extra measures to educate its citizens about the monumentally life saving possibilities of organ…

    • 1093 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By donating organs after one has moved on, they can save or improve as many as 50 lives (Transplant.org). With this being said there is a clear understanding with the amount of impact one person can have on those fifty lives. Everyone has the chance to sign up to become an organ donor, that way they have the ability to benefit others even when they’re time has passed. With the proposal stated, anyone can sign up to donate their organs at organdonor.gov. On the site one will simply fill in their information and along with the choices as to which organs they would like to donate.…

    • 1123 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    You were born with the ability to change someone’s life, so why not take advantage of it. There’s many people out in this world who deserve a second chance, and would do anything to keep living. While there’s many people out there who don’t even care about other’s and aren’t willing to help them have a second chance. Organ donations is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ for the purpose of transplantation into another person. It doesn’t take a lot to become an organ donor, blood and oxygen must flow through the organs until the time of recovery to ensure viability.…

    • 1978 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Today alone 18 people will die waiting for an organ transplant. Just one person can save up to eight lives by being donors. Medicine and medical procedures can no longer save the terminally ill. Assuming that the patient chooses to donate their body to science, they can help others live even in their death. The choice should always be the patients, whether they are choosing to donate their organs or the manner of their death.…

    • 1603 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays