Persuasive Essay On Organ Donation

Currently, there are thousands of people waiting for a type of organ transplant. Transplantation is an amazing advance in modern medicine. The need for organ donors is much larger than the number of people who sign up to donate their organs. “Every day in the United States 17 people die waiting for an organ and more than 80,000 men, women, and children await life-saving organ transplants” (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation). Choosing to be an organ donor is a vital resource for patients waiting for these vital transplants. However, organ donation has many benefits which are unfortunately clouded by misconceptions.
Many people are unaware about donating their organs until faced with the question. Once asked, many people say no without realizing the consequences. Potential donors pass away every day not leaving instructions or even making the decision that they wish to be a donor and every year thousands of transplantable organs are buried or cremated. Potential living donors usually do not consider all the benefits organ donation has to offer. People should donate their organs because they can save someone’s life even after they die, there are many benefits to being an organ donor, and most myths about organ donning are false. In order to become a well informed donor, you must know what organ donation is, how it works, and how you can become an organ donor and what organs or tissues you can donate.
There are no age limits on who can be an organ donor. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. If you are younger than 18, you must have a parent's or guardian's consent. If you are 18 years or older, you can show you want to be an organ and tissue donor by signing a donor card.
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... and pancreas. Matching blood type is necessary for transplants and certain blood types are more recurring in ethnic minority populations, so the need for minority donor organs is especially high. No matter what your race or ethnicity is, organs are needed and by becoming a donor, a life is saved.
Now that the facts have been stated, it is easy to see that being an organ donor can make a big difference, especially not just to one patient. I would like to pose the following questions: Why shouldn’t organs be donated? Would you donate your own organs or your loved one's organs? After people die, those organs can keep functioning in others’ bodies, which means to continue other lives. Why not give the gift of life to another human being in need? To become an organ donor would change the life and or lives of those in need and truly give them that second chance at life.