Organ Donor Persuasive Speech

Organ Donation
I. I will ask the class about how they feel when they wait for something.
II. To persuade my audience to become organ donors.
III. After listening to my speech, my audience will be more eager to become organ donors.
IV. There is not enough organ.
V. Become an organ donor.
VI. Today, I will talk to you about the need for organ donation, the solutions for insufficient of organ, and how donating your organ benefit the society.
Transition: let’s start by talking about some of the problems that people waiting for organ transplants encounter.

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I. The world-wide problem is that people are waiting for organ transplants.
A. Every day about a dozen people in the United States

Every year waiting lists grow faster than the supply of organs (Caplan, 2015).
C. The great disparity between organ availability and the number of patients waiting for lifesaving organs has long challenged the transplantation and donation communities (Goldstein et al, 2012).
Transition: Now that we know what the problems are, we can discuss how to solve it.
II. Signing up to become an organ donor is a potential step to save many lives at risk.
A. Many hospitals have instituted policies for obtaining organs from persons who do not meet brain death standards, but who are deemed dead by traditional cardiac and pulmonary standards (Caplan, 2009).
B. All religions approve of organ and tissue donation because it an act of charity (Wall et al, 2015).
C. There are 58 Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the United States that have taken on this responsibility as the stewards of the gifts of life. The act of donation begins with the process of consent, more appropriately termed authorization for organ donation (Wall et al, 2015).
D. You can also find organ donation websites or centers by searching the internet.
Transition: so now that we know the solution to take to become organ donors, it is significant to know the advantages of