Organ Donation
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Title:
Organ Donation: Why we should give the gift of life.
Specific Purpose:
I hope to persuade the audience why each of them needs to make the commitment to be an organ donor
Central Ideal:
Why it is important to become an organ donor and sign an organ donation card and share your wishes with your family
Introduction
By this time tomorrow, 17 people in America who are alive right now will be dead. Not because they were in a car wreck, or because they were gunned down. Not because their time had come, or not even because they werent in the hospital, but simply because they couldnt be given a life-saving transplant in time. 17 people will die because the organ transplant they need will not be possible.
I am for organ donation I believe that when we pass on that our organs should be used to save someone life if at all possible.
Although I believe in organ donations, and believe that it is something that everyone should be required to do I can understand why some people are hesitant about it.
I will first tell you about the enormous problem, then I will share with you some of the myths and I will also share a few of the most frequent questions asked about organ donation.
Transition: Lets look at the problem
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I. Currently, nearly 89,464 Americans are waiting for a life saving organ transplant. 2,104 of those are under the age of 18. Nearly 1000 new patients are added to that list monthly. There are more than enough potential donors who pass away each day who could meet all the needs of people on the waiting list.
The problem is these potential donors die without leaving instructions that they are prepared to help someone live after them.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services there are more than 89,000 people in the United States on the waiting list for life-saving organs. More than 6,052 people will die this year alone waiting for an organ transplant. These statistics can easily be avoided by becoming an organ donor.
The problem is that not enough people are becoming organ donors and even if they want to they are not making their decision known to family or friends. Donating vital organs, without a doubt, saves numerous lives.
The number of organ transplants performed in 1994 reached an all time high while the number of organ donors remained the same. This is evidence that the need for organ donors is on the rise.
Organ donation is one way for anyone to help save lives of others. One donor can save 50 people. It is something that does not take a lot of effort. Here are a few simple steps to becoming an organ donor or a Living donor :
Signing a organ donor card and have a relative sign the card, then keep this card in your wallet
Make your wishes known to all your family members, and discuss your views with your family physician. These are all ways to ensure that your wishes to become an organ donor will be met.
Proximately 93% of family members said that they would donate a deceaseds organs if they knew that was what the deceased would have wanted.
These numbers are astonishing and prove, without a doubt, That making your wishes known is the key in organ donation
To be come a living donor you should talk with you doctor about this they can answer a lot of your questions.
According to American Society of multicultural Health and transplantation they are approximately 2,099 children on the waiting list waiting for organs 818 of those are waiting for a liver which could be a living donor.
Theyre several things that a person could donate as a living donor those are a kidney, partial liver, a partial lung ,a partial pancreas and bone marrow and of course the most common