Organ Donation Essay

Legalization of Organ Trade In 2014, 4,270 people died while being on the kidney transplant list; those 4,270 do not include the 3,617 people who were also on the wait list who became too ill to receive a kidney. Even though 17,000 kidneys were donated in 2014, 12 people continue to die every day due to the shortage of organ availability through organ donation (The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and Scientific Registry of…

morally correct to save another life, knowing that your own can’t be saved. In the case of Baby Theresa in 1992, a newborn infant who suffered with anencephaly, parents, Laura Campo and Justin Pearson, decided that they wanted to donate their child 's organs upon hearing that their newborn wouldn’t survive for too long. Anencephaly is a serious birth defect in the formation of a baby’s neural tube development. There is an absence of a major part of the brain, skull, and scalp that, normally,…

Organ Transplants Doctors have been performing organ transplants since the year 1954. Organ transplantation is a very difficult task and requires a lot of training, skill, and patience. The first recorded organ transplant was performed on December 23, 1954, it was performed on twin brothers, Ronald and Richard Herrick. The doctor that performed this surgery was Dr. Joseph Murray. He was the Nobel winner for performing the first ever kidney transplant, and he died at the age of 93. Since then…

Organ supplies are stagnant and scarce. This poses a critical issue. Fortunately with today’s technology, (aside from human transplantation) two major potential solutions have derived: xenotransplantation (the process of replacing human organs with animal organs) and organ engineering or tissue engineering (creating tissues and organs from human cells). Aside from the promising benefits and breakthroughs, these two methods are far from perfect, and although there has been successful cases, there…

authorize doctors to do and do not do certain medical procedures in you in case you become incapacitated or medically unconscious to make decisions or even speak. Many people are now including organ donation in their living will. This is a noble and admirable practice. Imagine how many people your organs could save when you die. That is like living your life to the fullest. Even in death, you could be sure you are contributing well to humanity. What medical procedures are covered? A living will…

The steroids that are taken for immunosuppression also can cause elevated glucose levels (). An article in Current Diabetes Reports, looked at the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in post solid organ transplant patients. The article discusses the different factors that contribute to the development of hyperglycemia that many post-transplant patients suffer frim. The article cites immunosuppressant therapy, decreased kidney function, changes in…

list”, the National Kidney Foundation is not playing around. Statistically speaking that is a lot of people in need of a vital organ. The author Joanna Macay talks about the need for organ donations in her Article “Organ Sales will Save Lives”. Macay disputes her case briefly when stating her thesis in the first paragraph. She goes on to give her opinion that the selling of organs should be built to become legal. More specifically the selling of kidneys. She presents a fact in order to grasp…

According to, The National Organ Transplantation Act there are nearly 20,000 kidneys each year for about 80,000 patients on the waiting list. In 2008, nearly 5,000 of those patients died. (Gregory 451). There are not enough kidneys for every patient to receive one. This is something I wish no one should have to deal with, but when you or a family member are in a life or death situation. You would do everything in your power to control it, but acts like the National Organ Transplantation are the…

TOPIC Every day, more and more people require a new organ. Whether it’s a new lung, heart, kidney, liver, brain or any of the other myriad of minor organs, anyone could need one due to an injury or disease. There is, however, a solution for people in need of an organ. Patients in need of an organ are placed on a wait list for an available organ provided my donors. “Unlike relatively simple tissues such as bones and skin, to give a heart, the donor must be declared brain dead and the family must…

Joanna MacKay says in her essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives, that “Lives should not be wasted; they should be saved.” Many people probably never think about donating organs, other than filling out the paper work for their drivers’ license.…