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Persuasive Essay On Organ Donation

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It is very scary situation when you or love one are in life and death situation and need immediate organ transplant and its only depend if you could get a new organ. Well that’s the case for many people. There are over 12168779 U.S. patients currently waiting for an organ transplant, each month there are near 5000 new patients are added to the waiting list, and 24 to 25 people die each day while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung or bone marrow. Therefore I think we need more people to donate and help save lives if theirs can’t be saved. Because more people are not donating Since 2001 there were 1,347 liver patients, 2,025 kidney patients, and 361 lung patients 458 heart patients …show more content…

Some people think that it is the person’s “time to go” so donating would make the patient live longer than they are suppose to. But then there are the other people, like me, who think that if someone is dying or no longer is in need of an organ then they should give it to someone who can use it and needs it more than that person does. And donating blood is harmless and completely safe but some think differently. People who don’t agree think they can get infected by the needle that is used to take the blood out, which of course is completely new, never used, and 100% …show more content…

All hospitals are required by law to have a "Required Referral" system in place. Under this system, the hospital must notify all patient deaths to the local Organ Procurement Organization. If the OPO says that the organ or tissue is a match, they will have someone go talk to the patient’s family to give them the option of donating organs and tissues even if the patient has already chosen to be a donor. When someone chooses to be a donor, they sign a Uniform Donor Card which states that they want to be a

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