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Organ Shortage
Within the past few years, the demand for organs has increased at an alarming rate. This is due
mostly to the fact that diseases and illnesses are becoming more prevalent and are brought on due to
a significant change in American lifestyles. Failing organs can be caused by certain ways of living
such as being a smoker or becoming obese. Many people are in need of a vital organ or know
someone who needs an organ; these people are greatly impacted by a decision involving organ
donation. Vital organs, such as the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and liver are involved, which means
these people are in life and death situations. While organ transplants have created a way to give and
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Different countries have different systems to organize organ donation. These systems are known as
either "opt out" or "opt in". The United States is currently under an "opt in" system which basically
means that we assume that everyone does not wish to become an organ donor, unless is it made clear
in their lifetime. An "opt out" system is one in which we assume that everyone wishes to become an
organ donor after death, otherwise made explicitly known during lifetime. It is proposed that the
solution to the organ shortage crisis in the United states is to adopt the opt out system. This system
makes more sense because if a person is so passionate about not being a donor, they will voice that
while they are living. Our current system does not encourage people to actually take the time to
make a decision about being an organ donor or not. Instead, the system we currently have allows
people to stay uninformed about decisions that could in the end give someone else a shot at living
their life. An article written in the European Journal of Health Law talks about the bill of 2009 that
allows presumed consent for organ donation in European countries. Lisa Cherkassky, Lecturer in
Law, includes specifics details written in the bill such as, if a person during their lifetime has not
"registered to an objection to his body" that after death, it will be "presumed that he [has] consented
to such a donation." In the US, we currently must register to donate, with a system like this, it would
be the opposite (registering to not donate). Cherkassky also includes how the bill seeks to protect
people as well when it comes to death, she says "unless two registered medical practitioners have
satisfied themselves that the person is dead," no organs will be allowed to be removed. Adopting a
bill with a policy of protection
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Organ And Organ Of Organ Transplantation
Recognized as one of the most gripping medical advances of the century, organ transplantation
provides a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs. Organ
transplantation requires the participation of both fellow human beings and of society by donating
organs from deceased or living individuals. The ever increasing rate of organ failure and the
inadequate supply of organs have created a significant gap between organ supply and organ demand.
This gap has resulted in extremely lengthy waiting times to receive an organ as well as an increased
number of deaths among those waiting for an organ. These events have raised many ethical, moral
and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation and the use of living donors as
volunteers including minors. It has also led to the practice of organ sale by entrepreneurs for
financial gains in some parts the world through exploitation of the poor, for the benefit of the
wealthy. This paper presents valuable information regarding organ transplantation while supporting
the medical definition of the term "brain death" What is brain death? Physicians and other health
care professional have often accepted that a person is deceased when his or her brain is dead.
Although the widespread use of mechanical ventilators and other advanced critical care services
have transformed the course of terminal neurologic disorders. Through the advancements in
medicine and technology, vital signs
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Be An Organ Donor
Do you know anybody who has received an organ donation? If so you know how life changing it
could be for somebody to receive a organ donation. Its good to be a donor. First of all it could
change someones life or maybe even save it. Next, it could help many people waiting for organ
donations and help them receive the the organs they need. Its good to be a organ donor.
First of all it could change someones life or maybe even save it. I read a story where a man named
Clint was killed in an accident and he was an organ donor. In the article, "Clint's Big Smile and
Loving Heart," the author says, "They had learned that Clint's organs had saved the lives of a mother
and two fathers..." This quote shows how being an organ donor can affect
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Donation Of Human Organs : Organ Donation
Donation of Human Organs
Image something tragic has happened to one of your family members. Sounds crazy right! Well
what if they need a kidney, liver, or even a heart. What if they could not afford to get a transplant?
What if you or someone else could donate it for them? As of June 21, 2013 there are 118,617 people
waiting on life–saving organ transplant. Organ donation is a noble act, and anyone can do it. Most
people that donate are the ones that do it after death. The reason for this is to help someone that
needs the donation. Organ donation promotes a general principle of giving and selflessness; it would
help with medical cost, and can be effective by giving someone a second chance at life. While there
are penalty of reasons to donate there is one reason it is selflessness. Giving someone an organ is a
selfless thing that anyone can do. Organ donation is when a donor is living with a healthy
functioning organ, and decides to give it to someone who has a failing organ of their own. Donating
can occur when a donor is living, but certain organs like the heart requires a heart from a person
who has died. Organ donation is very important because it can determine if the person lives or died.
You are not thinking of yourself, but of other people future. It is giving life to someone who needs it
desperately. It's like you are giving that person a special gift, and not wanting anything in return. I
myself am not an organ donor, but looking at the research has helped
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Organ Donation
In today's world of modern medicine, organ transplants are behind numerous lives being saved
every day. Nevertheless, the demand of organs donations is growing far more than there are organs
available for donation. The ability to buy and sell organs is illegal across the globe, and with this the
creation of the black market has emerged. The black market is where people who are rich enough to
buy organs go in search for people in underdeveloped countries with laws that aren't enforced as
strictly as developed countries, as well as they are in dire need of money. The kidney was the
biggest demand of the black market, but lately other organs has been in search for as well as human
tissue. The demand for kidneys and other organs is alarmingly higher than the availability. For
example, in Western Europe, an estimated "40,000 patients are on waiting list for kidney transplants;
however, it is expected that only 1:4 of the patients will be able to receive the organs they need"
(Erin and Harris 137). With the statistics as these, it is assumed that many patients will die before
ever receiving a transplant. The countries across the world have laws that prohibit the act of buying
or selling of organs. In the United States of America, the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act
prohibits the sale of human organs by both the livings donors and by the families of deceased is one
example of these laws (Weekes n. p.). With "an average of 15 patients die every day in the United
States whilst
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The Organ Of Organ Transplantation
One of the most significant issues concerning organ transplantation revolves around the just and fair
distribution of organs. Due to the assorted and occasionally conflicting opinions of what constitutes
as 'fair', in concurrence with a relative shortage of donated organs, many social, legal and ethical
contentions have arisen. This shortage is portrayed by statistics shown on the NHS organ donation
page, where approximately 10,000 people are on the waiting list for a solid organ transplant and
approximately 1,000 people die annually whilst waiting for an organ transplant and in 2013, a record
4,655 patients received a solid organ transplant (National Health Service, 2014).
Furthermore, it is important to observe the fact that the organ donor deficit is growing, even
factoring in the 50 percent increase in live donations since 2008. This deficit can be attributed to the
rate of increase in donated organs falling short of the greater increase in transplant–requiring
patients. This can be further illustrated statistically where the number of people requiring organs has
increased from approximately 8,700 to approximately 10,000 between 2005 and 2013 (National
Health Service, 2014). There are a myriad of contributing factors that can be held responsible for the
rise in required organs, including the prevalence of diseases inflicted through lifestyle choices i.e.
obesity and smoking, as well as improved medical science resulting in an aging population.
Additionally, there are
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Organ Compensation
Most organ programs appeal to the altruistic incentives of possible donors, however these donors
who are willing to do such a selfless act are not high in numbers. Resulting in a shortage of organs
for transplants, reducing the amount of lives that have the potential to be saved or enhanced to have
better living conditions. Thus causing this issue to be looked at on a more serious note, and seek
options to increase organ transplant rates. With this issue on the rise one incentive that is being
debated is whether organ donors should receive compensation. As there are two sides to this
argument whether compensation is ethical or unethical, due to several lives on the line, the act of
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Entailing that exploitation does not entail for a completely open and unregulated market for human
organs. Although allowing the market to freely determine the price of human organs in the market
economy, there are reasons in favor of regulation in which would enable authorities to monitor
developments and react accordingly when the time is needed. Not only will authorities monitor
developments, but excess regulation will be taken into precaution to prevent the indecent price
escalation that would put organ donors in the hands of affluent buyers, and protect donors from
corrupt middlemen whose primary interest is profit making. Legitimate sources would also be
ensured for the organs and guidelines that would offset inequalities and injustice (Medical
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Organ Of The Organ System
Organ transplantation has been around for about 61 years. The first successful transplantation took
place on December 23, 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in
Boston, Massachusetts. That transplantation being successful on that day has saved many lives to
this day ("Transplantation"). The only legal way to get an organ transplant is through organ
donation. In the United States alone, there are about 122,690 people on the waiting list today and
only 10,051 donors. Every ten minutes, someone is added to the waiting list and 22 people that are
on the waiting list dies everyday ("Organ Procurement"). There have been many debates on the
matter of only being able to obtain an organ through donation. Some people believe that there
should be a legal market to sell organs. In these debates, people must take other matters into
consideration. The sale of organs may have an effect the environment, the different cultures, the
economy, ethics, politics, or even science and technology. Weather these effects would be good or
bad is up to debate.
There have been many debates on the issue of the legalization of the sale of human organs. One
person to debate on the issue was Dr. Monti. She put out an elaborate paper on how the sale of
human organs would benefit the economy. Jennifer Monti has a medical and master's degree in
public health and her research has been published in academic journals. Her other writings have
been recognized by the New York Times
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Distributing Organs
Distributing the organs among the patients should be done in an ethical way. Not everyone in need
of an organ transplant gets what is needed for him because there is a shortage in organ availability.
Actually, there should be a fair distribution plan and everyone should be aware of it. Most likely
there are two types of distributive rightness. The first type is called equal access, which means the
available organs should be fairly divided among the waited patients no matter the sex or the race,
and the waiting time length should be considered. The first on the list be treated first. Another type
of distributive justice is called maximum benefit, which means that the doctor give the priority to
the patient who "the doctor sees " that he/she will live longer or the transplantation will be
successful. It is a way to avoid wasting the organs because they are rare. UNOS encourages the
transplant centers in the United States to use those methods in distributive the organs: the medical
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There are many arguments that shows it has no fairness between the patients simply because no one
has the ability to determine how long the transplanted patient will live after the surgery. How many
years the organ will function. I believe that the second type is an unethical issue in the distribution
because there is no equality between people, and it gives its back to the older people, and not giving
them the opportunity to get the organ they are needed for. as a result, they may lose their
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Organ System For Organ Organs
If you could save a life today, would you? That is the question posed in discussing the sale of human
organs. There is undoubtedly a need for donor organs. According to UNOS, every ten minutes a new
person is added to the donor waiting list and an average of twenty two people die a day waiting for
an organ they will never receive. UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, is a non–profit
organization founded in 1984 that regulates organ allocation in the United States.The allocation of
organs it based on many factors, including availability locally, the medical state of the patient, and
how many people are in need of the same organ. The demand for organs is slowly becoming a
national problem with the number of people on the kidney transplant waiting list alone being over
93,000.(Mysel,2015)
The need for organ donors is at an all–time high with one hundred five thousand people all over the
world waiting for an organ donation. However, only fifteen thousand organ donations occur every
year, so what happens to the other ninety thousand people? These other ninety thousand people are
turning to the black market for help. According to the Merriam–Webster, which has been a well–
known international dictionary since 1844, the black market is defined as "a system through which
things are bought and sold illegally." Even though the black market is illegal, it is commonly used
because of the huge source of profit for the donor and supplier. Those who volunteer to donate their
organs
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Organ Donation : An Organ Donor
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, every ten minutes a name is
added to the National Transplant waiting list. As of December 1, 2015, there are 122,477 people that
need a lifesaving operation and are on the transplant waiting list. While on the waiting list, there is
an average of 22 people that die every day. So far, only 23,134 transplants have been done in 2015.
(U.S. Depart.of Health and Human Services) This incredibly low number of transplants is why more
people should become organ donors. Choosing to become an organ donor provides the opportunity
to save up to eight lives and improve the quality of life for many others with tissue donation. An
organ donor can also provide comfort to the grieving family: the loss of the loved one will be
helping others to live. Becoming an organ donor is much easier than many think. The decision can
literally be done in just minutes.
Web MD states, an organ transplant is the surgical removal of a healthy organ from one person, alive
or deceased, and transplanting the organ into another person whose organ is failing. Often an organ
transplant is the last effort to save and individuals life. This is why it is so important for individuals
to become organ donors. Not all organs in the body are transplantable. (Organ Transplants,16) The
most common organs that get transplanted are: heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and pancreas. Tissue
such as bones, corneas, and skin can also be used from organ donors.
There are
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Organ Donation : Organ Organs
Organ Donation
Organ donation occurs when a failing or damaged organ, is replaced with a new organ, through a
surgical operation. The two sources of organs for donation come from a deceased person and a
living person. The organs that are received from a deceased person are called cadaveric organs. A
person can indicate on his or her driver's license if they want to be an organ donor after they die.
There are some states that allow for family consent for organ removal, regardless if the deceased
person indicated that, they wanted to be an organ donor after they die. The second source of organ
donation comes from a living person. Living people can donate their organs to family members,
close friends, or strangers. There are many non–profit organizations that promote organ donation to
strangers, whom are in critical health situations and need an organ transplant in order to survive. The
problem is that there is a shortage of available organs. The organ donation process presents ethical
dilemmas that will be discussed in this essay, as well as, solutions, alternative solutions and,
ultimately, a final solution, that will be evaluated in relation to the ethical problem. To begin, there is
a timeline of historical events significant to organ donation. In 1954 the first successful kidney
transplant was performed (Timeline of Events, n.d.). In that situation, a living donor gave a kidney
to his identical twin. Many people were amazed that one twin could save another
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Compensation For Organs
Compensation to Donors for Organs
The sale of human organs in return for compensation is a very controversial topic. It is also illegal in
most countries; however, it is not uncommon for organs of the deceased or living to be sold on what
is known as a "black market" of organ trading/selling. Curdling Ireland stated "Is a global market for
organ sales the answer? Can a for–profit system exist, save lives, and still not exploit the poor?"
(Harvard Gazette, 2008) this is a question that has been brought to the highest judicial system in
many countries to be discussed further. The courts focus on the immoral and ethical issues with
making the sale organs legal in their countries. This results in the illegal practice of selling organs
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This would not only reduce the amount of deaths each year of individuals who are on the waiting list
for an organ transplant, it would also increase the amount of donors who would be willing to under
such a invasive surgery because they will be compensated for their generosity. The most common
way that a patient on the organ transplant list receives their organ is from a deceased individual who
has agreed to donating their organs before their death, or the family or spouse has agreed to donate
the organs of the deceased individual on their behalf. These facts are convincing and has the reader
pondering the thought "why do donors not receive compensation?" There are many individuals who
believe that there should continue to be absolutely no compensation to individuals who are willing
to donate an organ. The topic of exploiting the poor who would justify selling one if not two organs
in order to be compensated because they are struggling financially is an argument that is discussed
time and time again. This dilemma has resulted in what is known as the black market sale of organs,
donors and patients are what make up the black market. You have a vendor who could be a surgeon,
or a small company in another country who offers the organ transplants in usually half of the
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Organ On A Chip
INTRODUCTION
In recent years, the field of biomedical engineering has been growing and gaining significant
importance all across the world. Scientists have been striving to find cures to some of the most
potent diseases of this modern world and looking to find methods of assisting the many people
struggling with various types of disabilities. A newly rising technology in biomedical engineering is
the Human Body on a Chip, or Organ on a Chip. The Organ on a Chip is a multi–channel 3–D
microfluidic cell culture chip that stimulates the activities, mechanics and physiological responses of
entire organs and organ systems. At first glace these chips don't look like anything more than very
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According to statistics, over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in
United States labs every year. Also, up to 90% of all animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the
official statistics of animals tested. However, through the use of the human chip, the process of
animal testing can be significantly reduced because of the chips ability to mimic real life human
responses to drugs and medical
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Organ Donation And Organ Organs Essay
Organ donations have encountered organ donor and organ supply rejections. Organ donation
challenges and demands increase as the organ shortages increase over the years. Organ donation's
mission is to save many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives. The significance of
the organ donation is to give back to restore one's quality of life. The ongoing issues may present an
idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result, the mission of organ donations
are to restore organs for their patients and to promote, education, empower altruism and quality
ethics as a resource for existing and potential donors Organ donations has been perceived by
potential organ donors to be inhumane activity, a dishonor to the humanized process, circulation of
illegal revenue, and conceptual grounds needs to be consistent with altruism as the empowered
outcome. Inhumane activity is the overall reason why this proposal is for increasing organ donations
which are frequently rejected by incongruities with solidarity motivation as donor's measures. It
differentiates ethical principal amongst altruism and solidarity motivations for organ donations. The
first issue being the grounds is a limited form of additional problems limited to supporters
(Saunders, 2012), which may be independent or of individual groups, awaiting for the scarcity of
organs to receive the next available transplantation. Individuals are practicing degrading behaviors,
illegal activity, and
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Benefits Of Selling Organs
Selling your organs should be legal. Selling your organs could help with debt that many families
suffer with. Selling an organ could also help someone else get one while you are still getting
something out of it. Could make the amount of deaths go down from getting abducted and killed.
First selling organs could help a family with debt problems. Many families suffer with debt so they
could just sell their organs to help. Instead of taking out a loan and being in debt you could sell an
organ and help pay for the thing you wanted to buy. Cars and things like that cost around 30k for
each one but selling an organ such as a kidney gets you around 20k dollars which could definitely
help put forward some money towards what your trying to buy.
For
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Ceiling For Organs
The United States government has set the Price ceiling for the selling of organs at $0, meaning it is
illegal to sell organs for a profit. However, many tend to disagree with the law and believe a free
market could lead to an efficient distribution for organs. While it is illegal, there are some ways to
get the organ you need. For example, Susan Stephens was a woman whose son needed a kidney, but
hers was not a match. Susan then realized if she was to donate her kidney to a person in need, her
son would go up on the waiting list. The deal went through and Susan was able to save two lives
with her offer. After this story came out, many wondered where the line was drawn from legal to
illegal. Could people exchange in organ for tuition? Or, could people exchange an organ for a car? ...
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The average human is born with two kidneys, yet a person only needs one to survive. This fact
makes giving a kidney to someone in need common sense. However, most would not volunteer to
go under surgery for nothing in return. If the government were to remove the price ceiling for
organs, there would be no shortage for kidneys, people who need money would now have a chance
making a profit, and people who need a kidney now have a better chance of saving their life. Since
people who can afford a kidney could now buy one, people who could not afford one go far up the
waiting list so that they would not have to wait several years. Overall, I strongly agree that removing
the price ceiling on organs could benefit the person in need of some extra cash and the person whose
life depends on a
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Organ Donation
Money Fails Organ Donors
All over the world, there are people in need of organs such as kidneys. According to the National
Kidney Foundation, thirty million American adults have kidney disease and need kidneys. Without a
new kidney, it could lead to death. There are many reasons for humans to donate their organs.
Donating one's organs can save lives as well as give the person a sense of gratitude. There is no age
limit on being a donor however the million–dollar question is should they be paid for it? Being paid
for donating organs should be illegal due to all the problems that would arise if they did get paid.
These problems include: the organ being rejected, the possibility of complications during surgery,
and donating for the wrong reasons. One may argue that the number of donations would increase
causing the people that need them to decrease. However, the bad out ways the good in this situation.
Gary Becker and Julio Elias state that "In 2012, 95,000 American men, women, and children were
on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ" (222). The number of
deaths while waiting for the kidney transplant are extremely high. More people would be willing to
donate knowing there was money involved; however, the chances of the organ rejecting itself is still
there. Families paying high dollar for an organ that is not guaranteed to work is ridiculous. Even if
people could afford to keep buying organs until one actually worked, there would still be a
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Organ Donation
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to
act upon their decision to donate.
Thesis Statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an
organ donor when you die.
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Attention material/Credibility Material: How do you feel when you have to wait for something
you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn't live without? Well, my cousin was
five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right
away. He was called twice during a six month span that they had a kidney available only to find out
that the kidney wasn't a good match. He had to wait again. The ... Show more content on
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Talk with your family about your decision. They will be involved in the donation arrangements
when you die. If they do not know your wishes of becoming a donor, your wishes may never be
carried out.
2. Mark your driver's license so that your license indicates your intent to donate. Each state varies.
a. Fill out, sign and carry a uniform donor card with you. b. This donor card says what organs you
wish to have donated and also has places for your family members to sign as witnesses after you
have discussed your decision with them (Gundersen Lutheran Hospital [LaCrosse, WI] undated
brochure).
[Transition: You can see that it isn't difficult to be an organ donor. Now let's look at what may
happen if you choose to donate your organs and what may happen if you choose not to.]
C. Organ donation benefits both the donor's family and the recipients.
1. If you do donate your organs, your family and the people who receive your organs might benefit
in a similar way like this family. A seventeen year old died of head injuries in a car accident. His
mom decided to donate his organs. His heart went to a prison chaplain, his kidneys went to a mother
of 5 children and a Vietnam vet. The Vietnam vet is "energetic" and finally is getting his college
degree. The teenager gave life to others and his family feels a sense of satisfaction and comfort that
other lives have been touched by his (University of
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Organ Donation
Specific Purpose: By the end of my presentation, the audience will donate their organs and tissues
when they die and act upon their decision to donate.
Introduction
1 Attention Getter/Credibility Statement: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you
really, really want? What if it was something you couldn't live without? Well, my cousin was five
years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away.
He was called twice during a six moth span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the
kidney wasn't a good match. He had to wait again. The third time was a charm. A small adult was in
an accident and his kidney was a good match. This story had a happy ending but so ... Show more
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2 Review points– What if the person waiting on the list needing an organ transplant was someone
you loved? Imagine if you had a brother or sister who had unexpectedly died and you were able to
meet the person who received their heart, for example. Think of the satisfaction and possible
comfort knowing that your brother or sister provided life for somebody else.
3 Clincher– I'm going to leave you with a short massage from Michael Jordan who is a sponsor for
the Iowa LifeGift Coalition on Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness and appears in their 1996
brochure. "Please make the decision to become an organ and tissue donor. Remember: Share your
life. Share your decision."
Works Cited
Gundersen Lutheran Hospital (Lacrosse, WI): "Life...Pass it on." Undated brochure. Iowa LifeGift
Coalition on Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness:" Share Your Life, Share
Your Decision. "1996 brochure. Iowa Statewide Organ Procurement Organization:"Be an organ
donor...It's the chance of a lifetime!" undated brochure.
LifeSource: Newsnotes. October 2007. Accessed November 2, 2005.
www.lifesource.org/newsnotes.htm.
LifeSource: Questions and Answers. April 2005. Accessed November 7, 2005.
www.lifesource.org/public.htm.
LifeSource: Statistics. October 2005. Accessed November 2, 2005.
www.lifesource.org/statistics.htm.
South Dakota Lions Eye Bank: "No Greater Gift...Than
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Organ Transplants
Organ Transplants are done everyday, hearts, lungs, kidneys and so many more. The strange thing is
people and scientist are beginning to think that possible memories are stored in these organs. People
have began to show different characteristics after they have had an organ transplant surgery. Most
scientist have had actual meetings with recipients and the donors to actually try and figure out why
our organs are able to do this. Even though the research scientist have done does not fully say for
sure whether or not this is actually a proven fact they are almost positive this could be the reasoning
behind the recipients starting to have different characteristics in the way they live. Organ donors
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Considering they can make a person change their characteristics after receiving a donor's heart,
kidney, and liver. There is just to much research for me in my opinion to not be able to think that this
is true. Many scientist have come in contact with people and talked about their characteristics
altering after their operation. I do believe in the possibility of other people's organs and our hearts
transmitting electromagnetic fields which are leading people to believe this is why we feel the way
we do around certain people. Or this could be the reason why our moods are able to change when
were are around people who we are close to according to their
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Organ Donation
The Importance of Organ Donation
Each day approximately 6,300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are
83,513 people waiting for organs to be donated, yet each day 17 people die because they do not
receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people
who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need.
The sad truth is though, because of the lack of people willing to donate organs, many people will
continue to wait for organs to save their lives. "Waiting lists of patients for organ transplants become
longer as the need for transplantable organs increases" (Sheehy 1). Think back to how someone
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Many often feel when a loved one dies it is evil that they are being put through those feelings.
Instead of making another person go through that evil, turn it in to good. Ease the pain of death by
bringing new life to someone who has been suffering. It is one of the simplest and most effective
ways to help erase the pain one feels and bring happiness back into their life. For those who do not
believe in organ donation, it is mostly because they believe in the myths. They don't know any better
because they have never been educated on the topic. A view seen by those who disagree with
donating organs is that when someone dies, they are to be let alone to rest and go to eternal life, their
next life, or whatever their religious view bring them to. The mind and body though are separate.
The mind which carries everything the person was will leave the body and go to its eternal
destination. The actually body will be buried or incarnated still looking the same so that the
traditional funeral events can still take place. When doctors and medical staff remove organs, they
are very cautious about not affecting the look of the person. They replace the bones with rods to
maintain the rigidity. They will use sponges and bandages to hold the shape of the removed muscles
and tendons. All to help the donor looking just like they did before the surgery. Unlike many
believe, one can still have
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Organ Sales Essay
Although there are those who supports the positive impact of organ sales, however, there are also
arguments that supports the negative influence of organ sales. It has created business towards the
black market and the economy crime rate would increase.
Ever since organ transplant has been a success the supply for organs have been increased rapidly,
still, there is an insufficient in donors. Therefore, many have preferred to sell their organs instead of
donating them. However, Iran is the only country who allows organ sales while it is illegal for other
countries. Moreover, selling organs could face the consequences of a five–year prison sentence.
Hence, organ sales are creating business towards both the black and red market which is a bad
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The main crime which involves organ selling is organ trafficking and abduction where children
kidnapping cases is popular these days. For example, in China, a missing six years old was found,
however, after the inspection both of his eyes were removed (Ancher, D 2013). Moreover, the main
objective for kidnappers is to gain more money. As for organ trafficking, victims are mostly being
cheated by not getting paid or not getting the correct amount. According from the same source, an
average buyer would spend around $150,000 – $200,000 for an organ while the donor only gets
$5,000. Medical Daily (2013) explained that by doing organ trafficking, they are able to generate
between $600 million and $1.2 billion in profits per year, whereas the most commonly trade organs
are usually kidneys and livers. Top countries which involves organ trafficking is Moldova, India,
China, Philippines etc. where it is shown to be mainly from developing countries. Hence, it shows
that organ sales have a negative influence towards the economy which could increase in crime rate
especially in developing
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Organ
A chance to save life As we all know when a person dies the body decompose which depend on the
ground they are buried, or cremated based on the religion that person believed. However, instead of
letting our healthy organs be eaten by insects and decomposing it we can try to save a person in
need. Based on donate life America, an organizational team who support and encourage people to
sign up to be an organ donor and according to their information and research there are more than
117,294 people of all ages and gender currently on the wait list for an organ transplant in United
states concurrently. "The process of organ donation can save as many as eight lives through the
surgical transplantation of organs from a donor of recipients. ... Show more content on
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In the article "Not Just Urban Legend", Jeneen stated talks about the misuse of organ donation and
how in some country makes the organ donation business. Countries like Israel and other Mideast
and Asian country criminals kidnap poor slums people and sale them to Europe and American with a
higher price. Most organ that are transplant in America are transplanting from black market
according UCB surgeon. The World Health Organization estimates that one fifth of the 70,000
kidneys transplanted worldwide every year come from the black market. In the article Scheper–
Hughes in her research found out about some child kidnapping case where they were kidnap for
their organ. When those children were found they were missing some of their organ like kidney,
some parts of liver, eyes etc (Interlandi). Secondly, low poverty and finical crisis in some places
desperate parents and anxious teenage were selling their organs for cash, buy car or to visit a new
country. since 2010 the approximate waiting time for an organ (kidney) donor was 10 years and by
the time a patience receive his or her kidney or organ might past way; therefore all those who are
desperate end up breaking the rules. Misuse of organ donation in under develop countries has build a
doubt inside others and this leads to many
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Organ Of A Organ Transplant
Organ Transplant How do you feel when you really want something, but you have to wait for it?
Especially if it was the result of either life or death. People all across America are in this situation.
They need an organ transplant in order to live but they are put on a waiting list to see if they qualify
for an organ which may come in time before they are to sick, or it may not come in time which ends
in death. Some of the points we will discuss is what is an organ transplant, how can we determine
the value of a human life, and reasons why certain individuals that we chose deserve an organ
transplant the most and which individuals don't. With this in mind, what exactly is an organ
transplant? An organ transplant is an operation that places a healthy organ from another person into
your body. The organ can come from someone who died (a deceased donor) and who has signed
their states donor registry or told their family their wishes to become a donor. The organs that can be
replaced are the kidneys, heart, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus. There are no set age
limits that exists for certain organ transplant. You can receive a transplant at any age, but most
commonly occurs with teenagers. Women are more prone to have complications, organ rejection, or
even die from the organ transplant than men. In addition, organ transplants are more common in
females than males for the fact men's organs are two times stronger. This is the result of why most
organ donors are
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Organ System Of Organ Transplantation
Every Person in the United States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered
Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified
Rough Draft
UFID: 9169–9185
June 6, 2015
I. Background
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is
the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end–stage organ failure
(U.S Dept of health and human services website). End–stage organ failure can be attributed to a
number of diseases. Diseases such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes, hypertension, polycystic kidney
disease, as well as a number of others could potentially result in suffers of these diseases to require
an organ transplant.
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With this in mind, in 1954, Dr. John Murray was able to perform the first successful kidney
transplant using the kidney of one identical twin and transplanting it the other, who went on to live
eight years after the surgery. Then, in 1967, Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first heart
transplant. In this case, the recipient only lived eighteen days following the surgery. It must be stated
that the demise of the patient was not attributed to the failure of the new heart. The patient's death
was found to be cause be the pneumonia that was contracted by the patient due to his immune
system being suppressed by the anti–rejection drugs he had to take.
While the first organ transplants started with kidneys and the heart, organs such as livers, today's
doctors can transplant lungs, pancreas, and intestines. In addition, bones, skin grafts, tissues such as
the cornea, and even veins can now be transplanted in those that so desperately need them. As
described in NIH News in Health, with medical advances being made everyday, researchers and
doctors have now changed organ transplantation surgery from a risky procedure to one that can now
be viewed as routine. For instance, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute cites that 88% of
patients survive the first year post–heart transplant surgery and 78% of patients survive the first
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Organ Essay : The Organs Of The Human Body
Organ Wanted Essay
By: AryaShah
Our human body is a very complicated system. It consists of a number of organsand systems that
work in coordination with each other continuously and tirelessly without us even realising it. One of
the most sensitive organs in our body, which is the organ that I have chosen to research on for this
summative, the human skin. Even though the skin is only afew millimeters thick, it is the largest
organ in the body. It consists of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis. The
epidermis is the outermost layer of the skin, providing a waterproof barrier and creating our skin
tone. The dermis is the middle layer and a subconscious tissue that is made up of fats,and connective
tissues. The hypodermis, the deepest layer of the three, is made up of fats and connective tissues.
The skin belongs to the Integumentary system. The Integumentary system consists of skin, hair,
nails, and exocrine glands.
Some of functions of the skin are:
1. Protection– The skin protects us from microbes and the elements such as toxins and infections.
2. Body Temperature– Helps balance the body temperature.
3. Sensation– Permits sensation of touch, heat and cold.
4. Excretion– The excretion of waste material from the body in the form of sweat.
5. Storage– The skin also stores water and fats. Immune System– The skin is one of the few first
defense systems in our immune system. Tiny glands in the skin excrete oils that strengthen the role
of the "barrier of
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Organ Of Organ And Tissue Donation
Organ and tissue donation can be defined as the removal of organs and tissues from either a living
donor 's body or body of a patient who has recently died and transplanting the anatomical gifts into
the body of the recipient (Frey and Waun n.p.). Donation has continuously verified itself in the
science world as an exemplary form of medical treatment. Based on the advancements in donation
over the years, one can expect further amendments to be made to the life–saving treatment in such
high demand today. Various circumstances, such as an increase in obesity and life expectancy, have
become primitive factors in determining the demand for organs. The ever–growing need for
transplantable organs increases daily, which in turn is accountable for ... Show more content on
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Two discoveries that have aided in solving this factor are tissue typing and Jean Borrel 's discovery
of cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant drug which prevents the immune system from attacking the
new organ (Corr n.p.). With organ donation steadily increasing in success, more patients are added
to the waiting list every day in hopes of receiving a surgery that will save their lives.
The practice of organ and tissue donation requires regulation and legislation to ensure the rights of
the donor and recipient are protected throughout the entire process. Because of the scarcity of
human organs in the United States, the government created the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
(UAGA) in 1968 to standardize the distribution of organs throughout the country ("Organ
Donation"). Prior to the UAGA of 1968, there were no federal laws concerning donation, and
donations were conducted at the state level ("Organ Donation"). The UAGA of 1968 proved to be
efficient in the distribution of organs, but the system needed modifications to meet the high demands
of transplants. The original UAGA lacked policies regarding the ethical issues that arise when in the
donation process. After being revised in 1972 and once again in 1987, the UAGA added new
policies to further improve donation in the United States. The new policies explicitly prohibited the
selling of human organs, honored the descendant 's wishes over the family
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Organ Donation For Organ Transplants
INTRODUCTION
Organ donation is one of the most pressing health policy issues for our government to deal with and
organ donation rates in England must increase in order to meet the demand for organs on waiting
lists. Furthermore, the demand for surgical procedures such as organ transplantation has rapidly
increased after scientific breakthroughs in transplant technologies as well as the advent of new
medicines to reduce many problems associated with transplants, thereby increasing the life
expectancy of people receiving the transplant.
With more than 7000 to 8000 people on the waiting list in England alone, on the waiting list for an
organ transplant and only an estimated 2,800 organs that are transplanted each year (NHSBT 2016),
there is a significant shortage of organs available for transplant. There is an increasing concern that
the current system for organ donation in England, is failing to meet the demand in organs needed for
transplantation. The number of people needing transplants is going up steadily by about 8 percent
each year.(b) The number of premature deaths has also increased to approximately 1000 (Rieu.
2010) every year and this is conceivably the most tragic reminder that the current system is failing
us. To combat this problem, many health researchers have suggested changes to change the organ
donation laws, from informed consent to presumed consent.
THE CURRENT AND PROPOSED SYSTEMS/ DIFFERENT TYPES OF SYSTEMS The
difference
Since the Human Tissue Act
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Organ Sales
Most people and including this writer, probably have never given a lot of thought about organ
donation, aside from checking 'yes' box for DMV. A far amount of people believe that once a person
is dead, that using what is left of the body so another can benefit from the donation or, perhaps, even
save another human being's life. However, what about selling a kidney not donating one? The essay
"Organ Sales Will Save Lives" written by Joanna McKay, delves a lot deeper into the hot topic of
human organ sales and the need to change the laws. She makes a compelling argument for the
legality of organ sales as well as an ethical one. In her essay, Joanna McKay gives many reasonable
incentives to persuade the reader. She points out that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
There is no one to turn because whole business is illegal. Miss McKay believes that regulating organ
sales is not just a safer way for organ transplant but believes it is a moral and ethical duty to help
those in need and secure a safe way to see that happens. "Is it moral to sentence thousands to
unnecessary deaths?"(96) McKay believes it is immoral. This writer completely agrees. Over the
years, kidney transplants have become much safer and easier to perform due to medical advances
and new medications on the market and the risk for the donor and the recipient is very low. A person
should have the right to do what they want with their own body, especially when it comes to matters
of life and death. Selling a kidney to help one financially, as well as helping another person live a
longer and fuller life is ethically correct. If a person can sell blood, sperm, and even pregnant
women who are either surrogates or giving up their baby to a childless couple, have their entire
medical and lifestyle needs paid for by the adopting parents, then why cannot similar rules be made
for organs sales? Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if countries change their laws. Imagine
what a true and wonderful difference in the lives of these people could be made.
Summary and Analysis 1
English 112
Joanna Sharkey
Works Cited
McKay, Joanna. Organ Sales Will Save Lives. Ed. Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Groggin, and
Francine Weinberg. New York:
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The Importance Of Organ Donation
Over the past several years, the argument of whether or not compensating donors is ethical and
financially benefitting for everyone has been heavily debated. The interest for life saving organ
donation has such little supply that the doctors of waiting patients are so desperate that they believe
compensation is their only option. Enhanced survival rates combined with unfaltering development
of signs for transplantation make the organ deficiency progressively severe; waiting times are now
deplorably long. In order to cut the waiting period, compensating donors will promote more
individuals to become donors. Although there are many people who disagree with the idea to
compensate donors, people who donate their kidneys should be compensated because more
individuals will be drawn to donate their kidneys in return for monetary value. Additionally, donors
should be compensated because they are giving an organ from their body part away.
Individuals and their families pay for dialysis each year hoping they will be chosen to receive the
next available organ they have been longing for. These individuals often do not think about how
they could be paying a donor for a much lower price instead of dialysis which does not guarantee
the organ you desire. The interest for organ donation has reliably surpassed supply, and the large gap
between the quantity of recipients on the waiting list and the quantity of donors has increased. If a
larger supply of organs was available to the large
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5th Muscular Organ
Hey guys, today, we're going to learn about the 5th biggest organ in our bodies, which is the heart if
you were wondering! The heart is an important organ that keeps our bodies running well and
without it, you wouldn't be able to live (at all). It is a muscular organ which exists in most animals'
bodies and helps their blood circulate around the body. This muscular organ is part of the circulatory
system and has many bodily functions and interesting facts and details like how the organ works.
To begin, there are many functions that the heart does to keep your body running and alive. When
you breathe in oxygen, the heart pumps the oxygen rich blood throughout the body so that the body
can receive the oxygen. Then, after the body receives, the oxygen, you exhale the carbon dioxide
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The average size of the heart is around the size of the fist of an adult and will beat and average of
115,000 times in a day! In a single day, the heart can pump around 2,000 gallons of blood around the
body it can keep beating even if it is disconnected from the body. The first open–heart surgery was
done in 1893 by a person named Daniel Hale Williams who, at that time, was one of the few black
cardiologists in the whole entire world. Also, did you know that the youngest person that needed a
heart surgery was only like a minute old! The 1–minute old baby had a heart detect that made lots of
babies don't survive. The heart surgery that the baby had was successful so the baby didn't die but it
needed a heart transplant (which is a surgery that switches a person's heart with another) soon after
the surgery. Another interesting fact is that even though the American pygmy shrew is the smallest
mammal in the world, it has the fastest heartbeat of all of us mammals which a whopping average of
1,200 heartbeats in a
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Organ System Of Organ Transplantation
Every Person in the United States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered
Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified
Rough Draft
UFID: 9169–9185
June 6, 2015
I. Background
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is
the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end–stage organ failure
(U.S Dept of health and human services website). End–stage organ failure can be attributed to a
number of diseases. Diseases such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes, hypertension, polycystic kidney
disease, as well as a number of others could potentially result in suffers of these diseases to require
an organ transplant.
Though sophisticated in nature, doctors for have actually performed organ transplants over a
century, starting first with animal organs and then moving to human organs. For instance, in 1906,
Dr. Mathieu Jaboulay, a French surgeon, treated two suffers of kidney failure by transplanting a goat
kidney in one patient and a pig kidney into the other. While these transplants proved to be
unsuccessful, resulting in the demise of both patients, Dr. Jaboulay's work did lay the foundation for
Dr. Yu Yu Voronoy, an Ukraninina surgeron that was the first to use a human kidney for
transplantation. Again, these surgeries were unsuccessful. However, according to Watson and Dark
(2012) but they did demonstrate "the deleterioius effect of warm ischeaemia". Eventually,
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Organ Donation For An Organ Transplant
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services 18 people die each day
waiting for an organ transplant. They also state that one organ donor can save up to eight lives.
Those are significant numbers that should make us very much aware of the monumental impact
organ donation can have on the lives of so many critically ill patients and their families. Although
the tragedy of an accident or horrifying event is sometimes unbearable for the patient and the
patient's family, it may result in what some may call a "new hope" for those who are awaiting organ
transplantation. Emergency department doctors and nurses play an integral part between life and
death, between trying to save the patient and preserving the option of organ donation in the patient
who cannot be saved.
There are two sources for donor organs. The first source removes organs from recently deceased
people. These organs are called cadaveric organs. A person becomes a cadaveric organ donor by
indicating that they would like to be an organ donor when they die. This decision is usually noted
either on a driver's license or on a health care directive. (Ethics of Organ Transplantation, 2004) The
second source for donor organs is a living person. Living donors are often related to the patient, but
that is not always the case and certainly does not have to be the case. The one factor that must occur
for cadaveric organ donation to be possible is brain death. Brain death is defined as
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Organ Donor
Think of the most important person in your life. Now, image they come to you because they have
something to tell you; they need a kidney transplant. Not receiving one means they have about five
years to live, at most. Though, they are hopeful because they have been placed on the organ donor
waitlist. They go on dialysis and the wait beings. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and
months into years. According to the Kidney Organization, the average wait time for a kidney is
about 3–5 years. Unfortunately, your loved one does not receive the call, and when they are being
laid to rest, you think, how could it have ended this way? Sadly, this ending is far too common for
many individuals. Therefore, what can be done to prevent this ... Show more content on
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Though, it should be the standard that an individual is presumed to be an organ donor unless they
opt–out at some point prior to their death. An approach that was successfully implemented in Spain.
Also, in 1989, the Spanish created the Organization for National Transplantation (ONT), which
places trained administrators in hospitals to not only be able to identify organ donors but spend time
with families to increase the likelihood of consent for the deceased. Spain's model allows for
families to be asked to confirm that their loved one's did not opt–out at some point prior to their
death. Therefore, if they refuse then their decision will be respected. Their model has decreased
family refusals from 40–70% in the 1990's to approximately 15% in 2006. As it currently stands,
many countries around the globe, including the United States, have the contrary. One is presumed to
not want to donate their organs unless an individual registers for organ donation. This feels quite
antiquated and we should be following in Spain's footsteps to change to a presumed consent system,
which also ultimately allows one's family to have veto power. This would not only be a step in the
right direction, because as proven, individuals and families would be more willing to consent and
could possibly help reduce the donor shortage in the United States, and across the
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Organ Trafficking
Organ Trafficking Organ trafficking is one of the great issues that is faced by the society today. It is
a practice of stealing people's organ through surgery under the influence of drugs or from a dead
person, and the organs are normally sold in black market such as China. South Africa, and Russia.
WHO has estimated that one–fifth of the 70,000 kidneys that are transplanted every year come from
the black market through a widespread organ–trafficking networks. In my opinion, organ trafficking
has become an international trade due to several reasons.
First of all, an organ trafficking market has created due to remarkably high demand for body parts
from all over the world. Many people refuse to donate their organs even after they die has ... Show
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* Every hospital has a tout. In fact, the doctors or nephrologists will often suggest a person that you
can contact to get a kidney. They charge up to US$10,000.
* The recipients were wealthy clients in India and other countries. Some of them were from Greece,
Arab countries, United States and one or two patients from European countries."
Opening sentence: Organ trafficking is the practice of stealing people's organs via surgery while
they are under the influence of drugs, or once the person is dead, when the organs can be illicitly
removed and then used for further purposes such as transplants or sold on the black market such as
in China, South Africa, and Russia.
Thesis statement: Organ trafficking has become international trade due to several reasons.
Topic sentence 1: A remarkably high demand for body parts has created organ trafficking market.
But wherever there is demand there is a market.
Supporting detail 1: With the advent of organ transplantation more than thirty years ago, the human
body has quickly created a demand for replacement parts.
Supporting detail 2: The global demand for organs has surpassed organ donation in most cases, thus
creating a market economy of organ trade.
Supporting detail 3: With the scarcity of consensual organ donors worldwide, a
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Roles In Major Organs Essay
Lauren Mannix
August 25, 2015
BIO 120.Homework
Roles & Major Organs In Main Organ Systems (11)
1. Integumentary
a) Major Organs: Nails, Hair, Skin
b) Role in Body: The integumentary system protects underlying tissues in the body from external
forces, regulates and maintains body temperature, is responsible for sensation from outside stimuli,
provides immunity, takes part in vitamin D synthesis, and allows the excretion of salt, water, and
other chemicals.
2. Skeletal
a) Major Organs: Bones & Joints
b) Role in Body: The skeletal system provides support for soft tissues placed on muscles, provides
protection (ex. skull), assists in movement (bones=levers), releases and stores minerals, takes place
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Respiratory
a) Major Organs: Lung, Trachea, Bronchus, Larynx, Pharynx, Nasal cavity
b) Role in Body: The respiratory system is responsible for gas exchange. It supplies O2/removes
CO2 in order for cell respiration to take place.
9. Digestive
a) Major Organs: Liver, Stomach, Small intestine, Large intestine, Rectum, Anus, Oral cavity,
Esophagus
b) Role in Body: The digestive system is responsible for digestion (mechanical + chemical),
absorption, and movement along GI tract.
10. Urinary
a) Major Organs: Urinary bladder, Urethra, Ureter, kidney
b) Role in Body: The urinary system filters blood in order to remove metabolic wastes, toxins,
excess water, and salts. It is also involved in the regulation of water, salt, blood pressure, and PH.
11. Reproductive System Male
a) Major Organs: Penis, Testis, Scrotum, Ductus deferens, Prostate gland
b) Role in Body: The reproductive system in males is ultimately used for the production of offspring
by producing male sex hormones and sperm in order to be moved into the female reproductive
system.
12. Reproductive System Female
a) Major Organs: Ovary, Vagina, Uterus, Uterine tube, Mammary glands
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Organ Donation
Compensation for Organ Donation
Many people's lives come to an end earlier than expected. When this happens, families mourn the
loss of the loved one. However, do people mourn the loss of another life if the individual is not an
organ donor? The National Kidney Foundation believes that "legalizing payments of human organs"
should continue to be opposed, as codified in the third title of the National Organ Transplant Act.
(National Kidney Foundation 220). If this title is changed, then there will be multiple unexpected
side effects that could corrupt the system of organ donation to people who need the organs. What
exactly would define the price of saving a life? Who is paying the cost of the organ? Many things
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Organ receivers around the country would have to have the money to pay for the organ before
having the procedure done. These issues could ultimately affect all economically disadvantaged
people in need of organs.
The cost of a kidney is easily in the range of thousands to hundred–thousands of dollars. Being paid
to donate an organ would include monetary rewards, free or cheaper insurance, or a lower cost of
taxes. This may highly appeal to people with lower incomes, or the economically disadvantaged.
These statements were released by the National Kidney Foundation:
Offering money for organs can be viewed as an attempt to coerce economically disadvantaged
Americans to participate in organ donation. Furthermore, since the economically disadvantaged
have been shown to be less likely to be organ transplant candidates, financial incentives for organ
donation could be characterized as exploitation (National Kidney Foundation 221).
This contingency comes to state that the financially disadvantaged are proven to be less likely to
donate. Therefore, financial compensation may pressure some people into donating organs despite
the health risks. Financial compensation may argue against itself. A key example is that some people
may not be able to afford medical bills, so they decide to donate a kidney to pay other bills.
However, if the donation of a kidney worsens the
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Organ Transplants : An Organ Donation
Yazmin G. Urrea
J. Forsythe
English 1 A
January 20, 2015
Donating Organs
Did you know that over one hundred thousand people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ donation?
Do you know what an organ transplant is? An organ transplant is when an organ is replaced, a
failing organ with a healthy organ from another person. The reason behind an organ transplant is to
help people who have organs failing, and those people that have some sort of disease in their organs.
When you become a donor, you help improve research in many ways possible, with some of the
organs donated; doctors have found more and more information in order to help people with failing
organs. Donating organs can help save hundreds if not thousands regularly; also it gives comfort for
grieving families because even though the people in their family died they know that they did
something in order to save someone else's life. Did you know that most people get transplants
because they have a disease which needs help? The cornea is the most commonly transplanted
tissues in fact, more than four hundred thousand corneal transplants occur in the United States a
year. Organ recipients are selected with basic information starting with medical needs, location and
compatibility. In most countries, it is illegal to sell and buy organs, but international black markets
increase around the world. Organ transplants should be encouraged and we should encourage other
people to donate for many reasons. Would you help save someone's
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Organ Shortage

  • 1. Organ Shortage Within the past few years, the demand for organs has increased at an alarming rate. This is due mostly to the fact that diseases and illnesses are becoming more prevalent and are brought on due to a significant change in American lifestyles. Failing organs can be caused by certain ways of living such as being a smoker or becoming obese. Many people are in need of a vital organ or know someone who needs an organ; these people are greatly impacted by a decision involving organ donation. Vital organs, such as the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and liver are involved, which means these people are in life and death situations. While organ transplants have created a way to give and receive life to others, the process has actually become controversial ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Different countries have different systems to organize organ donation. These systems are known as either "opt out" or "opt in". The United States is currently under an "opt in" system which basically means that we assume that everyone does not wish to become an organ donor, unless is it made clear in their lifetime. An "opt out" system is one in which we assume that everyone wishes to become an organ donor after death, otherwise made explicitly known during lifetime. It is proposed that the solution to the organ shortage crisis in the United states is to adopt the opt out system. This system makes more sense because if a person is so passionate about not being a donor, they will voice that while they are living. Our current system does not encourage people to actually take the time to make a decision about being an organ donor or not. Instead, the system we currently have allows people to stay uninformed about decisions that could in the end give someone else a shot at living their life. An article written in the European Journal of Health Law talks about the bill of 2009 that allows presumed consent for organ donation in European countries. Lisa Cherkassky, Lecturer in Law, includes specifics details written in the bill such as, if a person during their lifetime has not "registered to an objection to his body" that after death, it will be "presumed that he [has] consented to such a donation." In the US, we currently must register to donate, with a system like this, it would be the opposite (registering to not donate). Cherkassky also includes how the bill seeks to protect people as well when it comes to death, she says "unless two registered medical practitioners have satisfied themselves that the person is dead," no organs will be allowed to be removed. Adopting a bill with a policy of protection ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 3. Organ And Organ Of Organ Transplantation Recognized as one of the most gripping medical advances of the century, organ transplantation provides a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs. Organ transplantation requires the participation of both fellow human beings and of society by donating organs from deceased or living individuals. The ever increasing rate of organ failure and the inadequate supply of organs have created a significant gap between organ supply and organ demand. This gap has resulted in extremely lengthy waiting times to receive an organ as well as an increased number of deaths among those waiting for an organ. These events have raised many ethical, moral and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation and the use of living donors as volunteers including minors. It has also led to the practice of organ sale by entrepreneurs for financial gains in some parts the world through exploitation of the poor, for the benefit of the wealthy. This paper presents valuable information regarding organ transplantation while supporting the medical definition of the term "brain death" What is brain death? Physicians and other health care professional have often accepted that a person is deceased when his or her brain is dead. Although the widespread use of mechanical ventilators and other advanced critical care services have transformed the course of terminal neurologic disorders. Through the advancements in medicine and technology, vital signs ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4.
  • 5. Be An Organ Donor Do you know anybody who has received an organ donation? If so you know how life changing it could be for somebody to receive a organ donation. Its good to be a donor. First of all it could change someones life or maybe even save it. Next, it could help many people waiting for organ donations and help them receive the the organs they need. Its good to be a organ donor. First of all it could change someones life or maybe even save it. I read a story where a man named Clint was killed in an accident and he was an organ donor. In the article, "Clint's Big Smile and Loving Heart," the author says, "They had learned that Clint's organs had saved the lives of a mother and two fathers..." This quote shows how being an organ donor can affect ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6.
  • 7. Donation Of Human Organs : Organ Donation Donation of Human Organs Image something tragic has happened to one of your family members. Sounds crazy right! Well what if they need a kidney, liver, or even a heart. What if they could not afford to get a transplant? What if you or someone else could donate it for them? As of June 21, 2013 there are 118,617 people waiting on life–saving organ transplant. Organ donation is a noble act, and anyone can do it. Most people that donate are the ones that do it after death. The reason for this is to help someone that needs the donation. Organ donation promotes a general principle of giving and selflessness; it would help with medical cost, and can be effective by giving someone a second chance at life. While there are penalty of reasons to donate there is one reason it is selflessness. Giving someone an organ is a selfless thing that anyone can do. Organ donation is when a donor is living with a healthy functioning organ, and decides to give it to someone who has a failing organ of their own. Donating can occur when a donor is living, but certain organs like the heart requires a heart from a person who has died. Organ donation is very important because it can determine if the person lives or died. You are not thinking of yourself, but of other people future. It is giving life to someone who needs it desperately. It's like you are giving that person a special gift, and not wanting anything in return. I myself am not an organ donor, but looking at the research has helped ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8.
  • 9. Organ Donation In today's world of modern medicine, organ transplants are behind numerous lives being saved every day. Nevertheless, the demand of organs donations is growing far more than there are organs available for donation. The ability to buy and sell organs is illegal across the globe, and with this the creation of the black market has emerged. The black market is where people who are rich enough to buy organs go in search for people in underdeveloped countries with laws that aren't enforced as strictly as developed countries, as well as they are in dire need of money. The kidney was the biggest demand of the black market, but lately other organs has been in search for as well as human tissue. The demand for kidneys and other organs is alarmingly higher than the availability. For example, in Western Europe, an estimated "40,000 patients are on waiting list for kidney transplants; however, it is expected that only 1:4 of the patients will be able to receive the organs they need" (Erin and Harris 137). With the statistics as these, it is assumed that many patients will die before ever receiving a transplant. The countries across the world have laws that prohibit the act of buying or selling of organs. In the United States of America, the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act prohibits the sale of human organs by both the livings donors and by the families of deceased is one example of these laws (Weekes n. p.). With "an average of 15 patients die every day in the United States whilst ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10.
  • 11. The Organ Of Organ Transplantation One of the most significant issues concerning organ transplantation revolves around the just and fair distribution of organs. Due to the assorted and occasionally conflicting opinions of what constitutes as 'fair', in concurrence with a relative shortage of donated organs, many social, legal and ethical contentions have arisen. This shortage is portrayed by statistics shown on the NHS organ donation page, where approximately 10,000 people are on the waiting list for a solid organ transplant and approximately 1,000 people die annually whilst waiting for an organ transplant and in 2013, a record 4,655 patients received a solid organ transplant (National Health Service, 2014). Furthermore, it is important to observe the fact that the organ donor deficit is growing, even factoring in the 50 percent increase in live donations since 2008. This deficit can be attributed to the rate of increase in donated organs falling short of the greater increase in transplant–requiring patients. This can be further illustrated statistically where the number of people requiring organs has increased from approximately 8,700 to approximately 10,000 between 2005 and 2013 (National Health Service, 2014). There are a myriad of contributing factors that can be held responsible for the rise in required organs, including the prevalence of diseases inflicted through lifestyle choices i.e. obesity and smoking, as well as improved medical science resulting in an aging population. Additionally, there are ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. Organ Compensation Most organ programs appeal to the altruistic incentives of possible donors, however these donors who are willing to do such a selfless act are not high in numbers. Resulting in a shortage of organs for transplants, reducing the amount of lives that have the potential to be saved or enhanced to have better living conditions. Thus causing this issue to be looked at on a more serious note, and seek options to increase organ transplant rates. With this issue on the rise one incentive that is being debated is whether organ donors should receive compensation. As there are two sides to this argument whether compensation is ethical or unethical, due to several lives on the line, the act of recompense to an individual who decides to become an organ donor is highly ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Entailing that exploitation does not entail for a completely open and unregulated market for human organs. Although allowing the market to freely determine the price of human organs in the market economy, there are reasons in favor of regulation in which would enable authorities to monitor developments and react accordingly when the time is needed. Not only will authorities monitor developments, but excess regulation will be taken into precaution to prevent the indecent price escalation that would put organ donors in the hands of affluent buyers, and protect donors from corrupt middlemen whose primary interest is profit making. Legitimate sources would also be ensured for the organs and guidelines that would offset inequalities and injustice (Medical ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 15. Organ Of The Organ System Organ transplantation has been around for about 61 years. The first successful transplantation took place on December 23, 1954 by Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume at Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. That transplantation being successful on that day has saved many lives to this day ("Transplantation"). The only legal way to get an organ transplant is through organ donation. In the United States alone, there are about 122,690 people on the waiting list today and only 10,051 donors. Every ten minutes, someone is added to the waiting list and 22 people that are on the waiting list dies everyday ("Organ Procurement"). There have been many debates on the matter of only being able to obtain an organ through donation. Some people believe that there should be a legal market to sell organs. In these debates, people must take other matters into consideration. The sale of organs may have an effect the environment, the different cultures, the economy, ethics, politics, or even science and technology. Weather these effects would be good or bad is up to debate. There have been many debates on the issue of the legalization of the sale of human organs. One person to debate on the issue was Dr. Monti. She put out an elaborate paper on how the sale of human organs would benefit the economy. Jennifer Monti has a medical and master's degree in public health and her research has been published in academic journals. Her other writings have been recognized by the New York Times ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16.
  • 17. Distributing Organs Distributing the organs among the patients should be done in an ethical way. Not everyone in need of an organ transplant gets what is needed for him because there is a shortage in organ availability. Actually, there should be a fair distribution plan and everyone should be aware of it. Most likely there are two types of distributive rightness. The first type is called equal access, which means the available organs should be fairly divided among the waited patients no matter the sex or the race, and the waiting time length should be considered. The first on the list be treated first. Another type of distributive justice is called maximum benefit, which means that the doctor give the priority to the patient who "the doctor sees " that he/she will live longer or the transplantation will be successful. It is a way to avoid wasting the organs because they are rare. UNOS encourages the transplant centers in the United States to use those methods in distributive the organs: the medical need, probability of success, and time on the waiting list. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... There are many arguments that shows it has no fairness between the patients simply because no one has the ability to determine how long the transplanted patient will live after the surgery. How many years the organ will function. I believe that the second type is an unethical issue in the distribution because there is no equality between people, and it gives its back to the older people, and not giving them the opportunity to get the organ they are needed for. as a result, they may lose their ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 19. Organ System For Organ Organs If you could save a life today, would you? That is the question posed in discussing the sale of human organs. There is undoubtedly a need for donor organs. According to UNOS, every ten minutes a new person is added to the donor waiting list and an average of twenty two people die a day waiting for an organ they will never receive. UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, is a non–profit organization founded in 1984 that regulates organ allocation in the United States.The allocation of organs it based on many factors, including availability locally, the medical state of the patient, and how many people are in need of the same organ. The demand for organs is slowly becoming a national problem with the number of people on the kidney transplant waiting list alone being over 93,000.(Mysel,2015) The need for organ donors is at an all–time high with one hundred five thousand people all over the world waiting for an organ donation. However, only fifteen thousand organ donations occur every year, so what happens to the other ninety thousand people? These other ninety thousand people are turning to the black market for help. According to the Merriam–Webster, which has been a well– known international dictionary since 1844, the black market is defined as "a system through which things are bought and sold illegally." Even though the black market is illegal, it is commonly used because of the huge source of profit for the donor and supplier. Those who volunteer to donate their organs ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 20.
  • 21. Organ Donation : An Organ Donor According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, every ten minutes a name is added to the National Transplant waiting list. As of December 1, 2015, there are 122,477 people that need a lifesaving operation and are on the transplant waiting list. While on the waiting list, there is an average of 22 people that die every day. So far, only 23,134 transplants have been done in 2015. (U.S. Depart.of Health and Human Services) This incredibly low number of transplants is why more people should become organ donors. Choosing to become an organ donor provides the opportunity to save up to eight lives and improve the quality of life for many others with tissue donation. An organ donor can also provide comfort to the grieving family: the loss of the loved one will be helping others to live. Becoming an organ donor is much easier than many think. The decision can literally be done in just minutes. Web MD states, an organ transplant is the surgical removal of a healthy organ from one person, alive or deceased, and transplanting the organ into another person whose organ is failing. Often an organ transplant is the last effort to save and individuals life. This is why it is so important for individuals to become organ donors. Not all organs in the body are transplantable. (Organ Transplants,16) The most common organs that get transplanted are: heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and pancreas. Tissue such as bones, corneas, and skin can also be used from organ donors. There are ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22.
  • 23. Organ Donation : Organ Organs Organ Donation Organ donation occurs when a failing or damaged organ, is replaced with a new organ, through a surgical operation. The two sources of organs for donation come from a deceased person and a living person. The organs that are received from a deceased person are called cadaveric organs. A person can indicate on his or her driver's license if they want to be an organ donor after they die. There are some states that allow for family consent for organ removal, regardless if the deceased person indicated that, they wanted to be an organ donor after they die. The second source of organ donation comes from a living person. Living people can donate their organs to family members, close friends, or strangers. There are many non–profit organizations that promote organ donation to strangers, whom are in critical health situations and need an organ transplant in order to survive. The problem is that there is a shortage of available organs. The organ donation process presents ethical dilemmas that will be discussed in this essay, as well as, solutions, alternative solutions and, ultimately, a final solution, that will be evaluated in relation to the ethical problem. To begin, there is a timeline of historical events significant to organ donation. In 1954 the first successful kidney transplant was performed (Timeline of Events, n.d.). In that situation, a living donor gave a kidney to his identical twin. Many people were amazed that one twin could save another ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24.
  • 25. Compensation For Organs Compensation to Donors for Organs The sale of human organs in return for compensation is a very controversial topic. It is also illegal in most countries; however, it is not uncommon for organs of the deceased or living to be sold on what is known as a "black market" of organ trading/selling. Curdling Ireland stated "Is a global market for organ sales the answer? Can a for–profit system exist, save lives, and still not exploit the poor?" (Harvard Gazette, 2008) this is a question that has been brought to the highest judicial system in many countries to be discussed further. The courts focus on the immoral and ethical issues with making the sale organs legal in their countries. This results in the illegal practice of selling organs for compensation. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This would not only reduce the amount of deaths each year of individuals who are on the waiting list for an organ transplant, it would also increase the amount of donors who would be willing to under such a invasive surgery because they will be compensated for their generosity. The most common way that a patient on the organ transplant list receives their organ is from a deceased individual who has agreed to donating their organs before their death, or the family or spouse has agreed to donate the organs of the deceased individual on their behalf. These facts are convincing and has the reader pondering the thought "why do donors not receive compensation?" There are many individuals who believe that there should continue to be absolutely no compensation to individuals who are willing to donate an organ. The topic of exploiting the poor who would justify selling one if not two organs in order to be compensated because they are struggling financially is an argument that is discussed time and time again. This dilemma has resulted in what is known as the black market sale of organs, donors and patients are what make up the black market. You have a vendor who could be a surgeon, or a small company in another country who offers the organ transplants in usually half of the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26.
  • 27. Organ On A Chip INTRODUCTION In recent years, the field of biomedical engineering has been growing and gaining significant importance all across the world. Scientists have been striving to find cures to some of the most potent diseases of this modern world and looking to find methods of assisting the many people struggling with various types of disabilities. A newly rising technology in biomedical engineering is the Human Body on a Chip, or Organ on a Chip. The Organ on a Chip is a multi–channel 3–D microfluidic cell culture chip that stimulates the activities, mechanics and physiological responses of entire organs and organ systems. At first glace these chips don't look like anything more than very thin pieces of plastic, but when filled with cells from ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... According to statistics, over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in United States labs every year. Also, up to 90% of all animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested. However, through the use of the human chip, the process of animal testing can be significantly reduced because of the chips ability to mimic real life human responses to drugs and medical ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28.
  • 29. Organ Donation And Organ Organs Essay Organ donations have encountered organ donor and organ supply rejections. Organ donation challenges and demands increase as the organ shortages increase over the years. Organ donation's mission is to save many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives. The significance of the organ donation is to give back to restore one's quality of life. The ongoing issues may present an idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result, the mission of organ donations are to restore organs for their patients and to promote, education, empower altruism and quality ethics as a resource for existing and potential donors Organ donations has been perceived by potential organ donors to be inhumane activity, a dishonor to the humanized process, circulation of illegal revenue, and conceptual grounds needs to be consistent with altruism as the empowered outcome. Inhumane activity is the overall reason why this proposal is for increasing organ donations which are frequently rejected by incongruities with solidarity motivation as donor's measures. It differentiates ethical principal amongst altruism and solidarity motivations for organ donations. The first issue being the grounds is a limited form of additional problems limited to supporters (Saunders, 2012), which may be independent or of individual groups, awaiting for the scarcity of organs to receive the next available transplantation. Individuals are practicing degrading behaviors, illegal activity, and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30.
  • 31. Benefits Of Selling Organs Selling your organs should be legal. Selling your organs could help with debt that many families suffer with. Selling an organ could also help someone else get one while you are still getting something out of it. Could make the amount of deaths go down from getting abducted and killed. First selling organs could help a family with debt problems. Many families suffer with debt so they could just sell their organs to help. Instead of taking out a loan and being in debt you could sell an organ and help pay for the thing you wanted to buy. Cars and things like that cost around 30k for each one but selling an organ such as a kidney gets you around 20k dollars which could definitely help put forward some money towards what your trying to buy. For ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 32.
  • 33. Ceiling For Organs The United States government has set the Price ceiling for the selling of organs at $0, meaning it is illegal to sell organs for a profit. However, many tend to disagree with the law and believe a free market could lead to an efficient distribution for organs. While it is illegal, there are some ways to get the organ you need. For example, Susan Stephens was a woman whose son needed a kidney, but hers was not a match. Susan then realized if she was to donate her kidney to a person in need, her son would go up on the waiting list. The deal went through and Susan was able to save two lives with her offer. After this story came out, many wondered where the line was drawn from legal to illegal. Could people exchange in organ for tuition? Or, could people exchange an organ for a car? ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The average human is born with two kidneys, yet a person only needs one to survive. This fact makes giving a kidney to someone in need common sense. However, most would not volunteer to go under surgery for nothing in return. If the government were to remove the price ceiling for organs, there would be no shortage for kidneys, people who need money would now have a chance making a profit, and people who need a kidney now have a better chance of saving their life. Since people who can afford a kidney could now buy one, people who could not afford one go far up the waiting list so that they would not have to wait several years. Overall, I strongly agree that removing the price ceiling on organs could benefit the person in need of some extra cash and the person whose life depends on a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 34.
  • 35. Organ Donation Money Fails Organ Donors All over the world, there are people in need of organs such as kidneys. According to the National Kidney Foundation, thirty million American adults have kidney disease and need kidneys. Without a new kidney, it could lead to death. There are many reasons for humans to donate their organs. Donating one's organs can save lives as well as give the person a sense of gratitude. There is no age limit on being a donor however the million–dollar question is should they be paid for it? Being paid for donating organs should be illegal due to all the problems that would arise if they did get paid. These problems include: the organ being rejected, the possibility of complications during surgery, and donating for the wrong reasons. One may argue that the number of donations would increase causing the people that need them to decrease. However, the bad out ways the good in this situation. Gary Becker and Julio Elias state that "In 2012, 95,000 American men, women, and children were on the waiting list for new kidneys, the most commonly transplanted organ" (222). The number of deaths while waiting for the kidney transplant are extremely high. More people would be willing to donate knowing there was money involved; however, the chances of the organ rejecting itself is still there. Families paying high dollar for an organ that is not guaranteed to work is ridiculous. Even if people could afford to keep buying organs until one actually worked, there would still be a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 37. Organ Donation Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate. Thesis Statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention material/Credibility Material: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn't live without? Well, my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice during a six month span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the kidney wasn't a good match. He had to wait again. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Talk with your family about your decision. They will be involved in the donation arrangements when you die. If they do not know your wishes of becoming a donor, your wishes may never be carried out. 2. Mark your driver's license so that your license indicates your intent to donate. Each state varies. a. Fill out, sign and carry a uniform donor card with you. b. This donor card says what organs you wish to have donated and also has places for your family members to sign as witnesses after you have discussed your decision with them (Gundersen Lutheran Hospital [LaCrosse, WI] undated brochure). [Transition: You can see that it isn't difficult to be an organ donor. Now let's look at what may happen if you choose to donate your organs and what may happen if you choose not to.] C. Organ donation benefits both the donor's family and the recipients. 1. If you do donate your organs, your family and the people who receive your organs might benefit in a similar way like this family. A seventeen year old died of head injuries in a car accident. His mom decided to donate his organs. His heart went to a prison chaplain, his kidneys went to a mother of 5 children and a Vietnam vet. The Vietnam vet is "energetic" and finally is getting his college
  • 38. degree. The teenager gave life to others and his family feels a sense of satisfaction and comfort that other lives have been touched by his (University of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 40. Organ Donation Specific Purpose: By the end of my presentation, the audience will donate their organs and tissues when they die and act upon their decision to donate. Introduction 1 Attention Getter/Credibility Statement: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn't live without? Well, my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. He went on the organ waiting list right away. He was called twice during a six moth span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the kidney wasn't a good match. He had to wait again. The third time was a charm. A small adult was in an accident and his kidney was a good match. This story had a happy ending but so ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 2 Review points– What if the person waiting on the list needing an organ transplant was someone you loved? Imagine if you had a brother or sister who had unexpectedly died and you were able to meet the person who received their heart, for example. Think of the satisfaction and possible comfort knowing that your brother or sister provided life for somebody else. 3 Clincher– I'm going to leave you with a short massage from Michael Jordan who is a sponsor for the Iowa LifeGift Coalition on Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness and appears in their 1996 brochure. "Please make the decision to become an organ and tissue donor. Remember: Share your life. Share your decision." Works Cited Gundersen Lutheran Hospital (Lacrosse, WI): "Life...Pass it on." Undated brochure. Iowa LifeGift Coalition on Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness:" Share Your Life, Share Your Decision. "1996 brochure. Iowa Statewide Organ Procurement Organization:"Be an organ donor...It's the chance of a lifetime!" undated brochure. LifeSource: Newsnotes. October 2007. Accessed November 2, 2005. www.lifesource.org/newsnotes.htm. LifeSource: Questions and Answers. April 2005. Accessed November 7, 2005. www.lifesource.org/public.htm.
  • 41. LifeSource: Statistics. October 2005. Accessed November 2, 2005. www.lifesource.org/statistics.htm. South Dakota Lions Eye Bank: "No Greater Gift...Than ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 43. Organ Transplants Organ Transplants are done everyday, hearts, lungs, kidneys and so many more. The strange thing is people and scientist are beginning to think that possible memories are stored in these organs. People have began to show different characteristics after they have had an organ transplant surgery. Most scientist have had actual meetings with recipients and the donors to actually try and figure out why our organs are able to do this. Even though the research scientist have done does not fully say for sure whether or not this is actually a proven fact they are almost positive this could be the reasoning behind the recipients starting to have different characteristics in the way they live. Organ donors maybe doing more for someone ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Considering they can make a person change their characteristics after receiving a donor's heart, kidney, and liver. There is just to much research for me in my opinion to not be able to think that this is true. Many scientist have come in contact with people and talked about their characteristics altering after their operation. I do believe in the possibility of other people's organs and our hearts transmitting electromagnetic fields which are leading people to believe this is why we feel the way we do around certain people. Or this could be the reason why our moods are able to change when were are around people who we are close to according to their ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 45. Organ Donation The Importance of Organ Donation Each day approximately 6,300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are 83,513 people waiting for organs to be donated, yet each day 17 people die because they do not receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need. The sad truth is though, because of the lack of people willing to donate organs, many people will continue to wait for organs to save their lives. "Waiting lists of patients for organ transplants become longer as the need for transplantable organs increases" (Sheehy 1). Think back to how someone might feel when a close ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Many often feel when a loved one dies it is evil that they are being put through those feelings. Instead of making another person go through that evil, turn it in to good. Ease the pain of death by bringing new life to someone who has been suffering. It is one of the simplest and most effective ways to help erase the pain one feels and bring happiness back into their life. For those who do not believe in organ donation, it is mostly because they believe in the myths. They don't know any better because they have never been educated on the topic. A view seen by those who disagree with donating organs is that when someone dies, they are to be let alone to rest and go to eternal life, their next life, or whatever their religious view bring them to. The mind and body though are separate. The mind which carries everything the person was will leave the body and go to its eternal destination. The actually body will be buried or incarnated still looking the same so that the traditional funeral events can still take place. When doctors and medical staff remove organs, they are very cautious about not affecting the look of the person. They replace the bones with rods to maintain the rigidity. They will use sponges and bandages to hold the shape of the removed muscles and tendons. All to help the donor looking just like they did before the surgery. Unlike many believe, one can still have ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 47. Organ Sales Essay Although there are those who supports the positive impact of organ sales, however, there are also arguments that supports the negative influence of organ sales. It has created business towards the black market and the economy crime rate would increase. Ever since organ transplant has been a success the supply for organs have been increased rapidly, still, there is an insufficient in donors. Therefore, many have preferred to sell their organs instead of donating them. However, Iran is the only country who allows organ sales while it is illegal for other countries. Moreover, selling organs could face the consequences of a five–year prison sentence. Hence, organ sales are creating business towards both the black and red market which is a bad influence towards the economy. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The main crime which involves organ selling is organ trafficking and abduction where children kidnapping cases is popular these days. For example, in China, a missing six years old was found, however, after the inspection both of his eyes were removed (Ancher, D 2013). Moreover, the main objective for kidnappers is to gain more money. As for organ trafficking, victims are mostly being cheated by not getting paid or not getting the correct amount. According from the same source, an average buyer would spend around $150,000 – $200,000 for an organ while the donor only gets $5,000. Medical Daily (2013) explained that by doing organ trafficking, they are able to generate between $600 million and $1.2 billion in profits per year, whereas the most commonly trade organs are usually kidneys and livers. Top countries which involves organ trafficking is Moldova, India, China, Philippines etc. where it is shown to be mainly from developing countries. Hence, it shows that organ sales have a negative influence towards the economy which could increase in crime rate especially in developing ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 49. Organ A chance to save life As we all know when a person dies the body decompose which depend on the ground they are buried, or cremated based on the religion that person believed. However, instead of letting our healthy organs be eaten by insects and decomposing it we can try to save a person in need. Based on donate life America, an organizational team who support and encourage people to sign up to be an organ donor and according to their information and research there are more than 117,294 people of all ages and gender currently on the wait list for an organ transplant in United states concurrently. "The process of organ donation can save as many as eight lives through the surgical transplantation of organs from a donor of recipients. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... In the article "Not Just Urban Legend", Jeneen stated talks about the misuse of organ donation and how in some country makes the organ donation business. Countries like Israel and other Mideast and Asian country criminals kidnap poor slums people and sale them to Europe and American with a higher price. Most organ that are transplant in America are transplanting from black market according UCB surgeon. The World Health Organization estimates that one fifth of the 70,000 kidneys transplanted worldwide every year come from the black market. In the article Scheper– Hughes in her research found out about some child kidnapping case where they were kidnap for their organ. When those children were found they were missing some of their organ like kidney, some parts of liver, eyes etc (Interlandi). Secondly, low poverty and finical crisis in some places desperate parents and anxious teenage were selling their organs for cash, buy car or to visit a new country. since 2010 the approximate waiting time for an organ (kidney) donor was 10 years and by the time a patience receive his or her kidney or organ might past way; therefore all those who are desperate end up breaking the rules. Misuse of organ donation in under develop countries has build a doubt inside others and this leads to many ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 51. Organ Of A Organ Transplant Organ Transplant How do you feel when you really want something, but you have to wait for it? Especially if it was the result of either life or death. People all across America are in this situation. They need an organ transplant in order to live but they are put on a waiting list to see if they qualify for an organ which may come in time before they are to sick, or it may not come in time which ends in death. Some of the points we will discuss is what is an organ transplant, how can we determine the value of a human life, and reasons why certain individuals that we chose deserve an organ transplant the most and which individuals don't. With this in mind, what exactly is an organ transplant? An organ transplant is an operation that places a healthy organ from another person into your body. The organ can come from someone who died (a deceased donor) and who has signed their states donor registry or told their family their wishes to become a donor. The organs that can be replaced are the kidneys, heart, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, and thymus. There are no set age limits that exists for certain organ transplant. You can receive a transplant at any age, but most commonly occurs with teenagers. Women are more prone to have complications, organ rejection, or even die from the organ transplant than men. In addition, organ transplants are more common in females than males for the fact men's organs are two times stronger. This is the result of why most organ donors are ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 53. Organ System Of Organ Transplantation Every Person in the United States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified Rough Draft UFID: 9169–9185 June 6, 2015 I. Background According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end–stage organ failure (U.S Dept of health and human services website). End–stage organ failure can be attributed to a number of diseases. Diseases such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes, hypertension, polycystic kidney disease, as well as a number of others could potentially result in suffers of these diseases to require an organ transplant. Though sophisticated ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... With this in mind, in 1954, Dr. John Murray was able to perform the first successful kidney transplant using the kidney of one identical twin and transplanting it the other, who went on to live eight years after the surgery. Then, in 1967, Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant. In this case, the recipient only lived eighteen days following the surgery. It must be stated that the demise of the patient was not attributed to the failure of the new heart. The patient's death was found to be cause be the pneumonia that was contracted by the patient due to his immune system being suppressed by the anti–rejection drugs he had to take. While the first organ transplants started with kidneys and the heart, organs such as livers, today's doctors can transplant lungs, pancreas, and intestines. In addition, bones, skin grafts, tissues such as the cornea, and even veins can now be transplanted in those that so desperately need them. As described in NIH News in Health, with medical advances being made everyday, researchers and doctors have now changed organ transplantation surgery from a risky procedure to one that can now be viewed as routine. For instance, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute cites that 88% of patients survive the first year post–heart transplant surgery and 78% of patients survive the first ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 55. Organ Essay : The Organs Of The Human Body Organ Wanted Essay By: AryaShah Our human body is a very complicated system. It consists of a number of organsand systems that work in coordination with each other continuously and tirelessly without us even realising it. One of the most sensitive organs in our body, which is the organ that I have chosen to research on for this summative, the human skin. Even though the skin is only afew millimeters thick, it is the largest organ in the body. It consists of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis. The epidermis is the outermost layer of the skin, providing a waterproof barrier and creating our skin tone. The dermis is the middle layer and a subconscious tissue that is made up of fats,and connective tissues. The hypodermis, the deepest layer of the three, is made up of fats and connective tissues. The skin belongs to the Integumentary system. The Integumentary system consists of skin, hair, nails, and exocrine glands. Some of functions of the skin are: 1. Protection– The skin protects us from microbes and the elements such as toxins and infections. 2. Body Temperature– Helps balance the body temperature. 3. Sensation– Permits sensation of touch, heat and cold. 4. Excretion– The excretion of waste material from the body in the form of sweat. 5. Storage– The skin also stores water and fats. Immune System– The skin is one of the few first defense systems in our immune system. Tiny glands in the skin excrete oils that strengthen the role of the "barrier of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 57. Organ Of Organ And Tissue Donation Organ and tissue donation can be defined as the removal of organs and tissues from either a living donor 's body or body of a patient who has recently died and transplanting the anatomical gifts into the body of the recipient (Frey and Waun n.p.). Donation has continuously verified itself in the science world as an exemplary form of medical treatment. Based on the advancements in donation over the years, one can expect further amendments to be made to the life–saving treatment in such high demand today. Various circumstances, such as an increase in obesity and life expectancy, have become primitive factors in determining the demand for organs. The ever–growing need for transplantable organs increases daily, which in turn is accountable for ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Two discoveries that have aided in solving this factor are tissue typing and Jean Borrel 's discovery of cyclosporine, an immunosuppressant drug which prevents the immune system from attacking the new organ (Corr n.p.). With organ donation steadily increasing in success, more patients are added to the waiting list every day in hopes of receiving a surgery that will save their lives. The practice of organ and tissue donation requires regulation and legislation to ensure the rights of the donor and recipient are protected throughout the entire process. Because of the scarcity of human organs in the United States, the government created the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) in 1968 to standardize the distribution of organs throughout the country ("Organ Donation"). Prior to the UAGA of 1968, there were no federal laws concerning donation, and donations were conducted at the state level ("Organ Donation"). The UAGA of 1968 proved to be efficient in the distribution of organs, but the system needed modifications to meet the high demands of transplants. The original UAGA lacked policies regarding the ethical issues that arise when in the donation process. After being revised in 1972 and once again in 1987, the UAGA added new policies to further improve donation in the United States. The new policies explicitly prohibited the selling of human organs, honored the descendant 's wishes over the family ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 59. Organ Donation For Organ Transplants INTRODUCTION Organ donation is one of the most pressing health policy issues for our government to deal with and organ donation rates in England must increase in order to meet the demand for organs on waiting lists. Furthermore, the demand for surgical procedures such as organ transplantation has rapidly increased after scientific breakthroughs in transplant technologies as well as the advent of new medicines to reduce many problems associated with transplants, thereby increasing the life expectancy of people receiving the transplant. With more than 7000 to 8000 people on the waiting list in England alone, on the waiting list for an organ transplant and only an estimated 2,800 organs that are transplanted each year (NHSBT 2016), there is a significant shortage of organs available for transplant. There is an increasing concern that the current system for organ donation in England, is failing to meet the demand in organs needed for transplantation. The number of people needing transplants is going up steadily by about 8 percent each year.(b) The number of premature deaths has also increased to approximately 1000 (Rieu. 2010) every year and this is conceivably the most tragic reminder that the current system is failing us. To combat this problem, many health researchers have suggested changes to change the organ donation laws, from informed consent to presumed consent. THE CURRENT AND PROPOSED SYSTEMS/ DIFFERENT TYPES OF SYSTEMS The difference Since the Human Tissue Act ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 61. Organ Sales Most people and including this writer, probably have never given a lot of thought about organ donation, aside from checking 'yes' box for DMV. A far amount of people believe that once a person is dead, that using what is left of the body so another can benefit from the donation or, perhaps, even save another human being's life. However, what about selling a kidney not donating one? The essay "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" written by Joanna McKay, delves a lot deeper into the hot topic of human organ sales and the need to change the laws. She makes a compelling argument for the legality of organ sales as well as an ethical one. In her essay, Joanna McKay gives many reasonable incentives to persuade the reader. She points out that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... There is no one to turn because whole business is illegal. Miss McKay believes that regulating organ sales is not just a safer way for organ transplant but believes it is a moral and ethical duty to help those in need and secure a safe way to see that happens. "Is it moral to sentence thousands to unnecessary deaths?"(96) McKay believes it is immoral. This writer completely agrees. Over the years, kidney transplants have become much safer and easier to perform due to medical advances and new medications on the market and the risk for the donor and the recipient is very low. A person should have the right to do what they want with their own body, especially when it comes to matters of life and death. Selling a kidney to help one financially, as well as helping another person live a longer and fuller life is ethically correct. If a person can sell blood, sperm, and even pregnant women who are either surrogates or giving up their baby to a childless couple, have their entire medical and lifestyle needs paid for by the adopting parents, then why cannot similar rules be made for organs sales? Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if countries change their laws. Imagine what a true and wonderful difference in the lives of these people could be made. Summary and Analysis 1 English 112 Joanna Sharkey Works Cited McKay, Joanna. Organ Sales Will Save Lives. Ed. Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Groggin, and Francine Weinberg. New York: ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 63. The Importance Of Organ Donation Over the past several years, the argument of whether or not compensating donors is ethical and financially benefitting for everyone has been heavily debated. The interest for life saving organ donation has such little supply that the doctors of waiting patients are so desperate that they believe compensation is their only option. Enhanced survival rates combined with unfaltering development of signs for transplantation make the organ deficiency progressively severe; waiting times are now deplorably long. In order to cut the waiting period, compensating donors will promote more individuals to become donors. Although there are many people who disagree with the idea to compensate donors, people who donate their kidneys should be compensated because more individuals will be drawn to donate their kidneys in return for monetary value. Additionally, donors should be compensated because they are giving an organ from their body part away. Individuals and their families pay for dialysis each year hoping they will be chosen to receive the next available organ they have been longing for. These individuals often do not think about how they could be paying a donor for a much lower price instead of dialysis which does not guarantee the organ you desire. The interest for organ donation has reliably surpassed supply, and the large gap between the quantity of recipients on the waiting list and the quantity of donors has increased. If a larger supply of organs was available to the large ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 65. 5th Muscular Organ Hey guys, today, we're going to learn about the 5th biggest organ in our bodies, which is the heart if you were wondering! The heart is an important organ that keeps our bodies running well and without it, you wouldn't be able to live (at all). It is a muscular organ which exists in most animals' bodies and helps their blood circulate around the body. This muscular organ is part of the circulatory system and has many bodily functions and interesting facts and details like how the organ works. To begin, there are many functions that the heart does to keep your body running and alive. When you breathe in oxygen, the heart pumps the oxygen rich blood throughout the body so that the body can receive the oxygen. Then, after the body receives, the oxygen, you exhale the carbon dioxide that the body makes and inhale the oxygen ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The average size of the heart is around the size of the fist of an adult and will beat and average of 115,000 times in a day! In a single day, the heart can pump around 2,000 gallons of blood around the body it can keep beating even if it is disconnected from the body. The first open–heart surgery was done in 1893 by a person named Daniel Hale Williams who, at that time, was one of the few black cardiologists in the whole entire world. Also, did you know that the youngest person that needed a heart surgery was only like a minute old! The 1–minute old baby had a heart detect that made lots of babies don't survive. The heart surgery that the baby had was successful so the baby didn't die but it needed a heart transplant (which is a surgery that switches a person's heart with another) soon after the surgery. Another interesting fact is that even though the American pygmy shrew is the smallest mammal in the world, it has the fastest heartbeat of all of us mammals which a whopping average of 1,200 heartbeats in a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 67. Organ System Of Organ Transplantation Every Person in the United States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified Rough Draft UFID: 9169–9185 June 6, 2015 I. Background According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end–stage organ failure (U.S Dept of health and human services website). End–stage organ failure can be attributed to a number of diseases. Diseases such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes, hypertension, polycystic kidney disease, as well as a number of others could potentially result in suffers of these diseases to require an organ transplant. Though sophisticated in nature, doctors for have actually performed organ transplants over a century, starting first with animal organs and then moving to human organs. For instance, in 1906, Dr. Mathieu Jaboulay, a French surgeon, treated two suffers of kidney failure by transplanting a goat kidney in one patient and a pig kidney into the other. While these transplants proved to be unsuccessful, resulting in the demise of both patients, Dr. Jaboulay's work did lay the foundation for Dr. Yu Yu Voronoy, an Ukraninina surgeron that was the first to use a human kidney for transplantation. Again, these surgeries were unsuccessful. However, according to Watson and Dark (2012) but they did demonstrate "the deleterioius effect of warm ischeaemia". Eventually, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 69. Organ Donation For An Organ Transplant According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services 18 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant. They also state that one organ donor can save up to eight lives. Those are significant numbers that should make us very much aware of the monumental impact organ donation can have on the lives of so many critically ill patients and their families. Although the tragedy of an accident or horrifying event is sometimes unbearable for the patient and the patient's family, it may result in what some may call a "new hope" for those who are awaiting organ transplantation. Emergency department doctors and nurses play an integral part between life and death, between trying to save the patient and preserving the option of organ donation in the patient who cannot be saved. There are two sources for donor organs. The first source removes organs from recently deceased people. These organs are called cadaveric organs. A person becomes a cadaveric organ donor by indicating that they would like to be an organ donor when they die. This decision is usually noted either on a driver's license or on a health care directive. (Ethics of Organ Transplantation, 2004) The second source for donor organs is a living person. Living donors are often related to the patient, but that is not always the case and certainly does not have to be the case. The one factor that must occur for cadaveric organ donation to be possible is brain death. Brain death is defined as ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 71. Organ Donor Think of the most important person in your life. Now, image they come to you because they have something to tell you; they need a kidney transplant. Not receiving one means they have about five years to live, at most. Though, they are hopeful because they have been placed on the organ donor waitlist. They go on dialysis and the wait beings. Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months into years. According to the Kidney Organization, the average wait time for a kidney is about 3–5 years. Unfortunately, your loved one does not receive the call, and when they are being laid to rest, you think, how could it have ended this way? Sadly, this ending is far too common for many individuals. Therefore, what can be done to prevent this ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Though, it should be the standard that an individual is presumed to be an organ donor unless they opt–out at some point prior to their death. An approach that was successfully implemented in Spain. Also, in 1989, the Spanish created the Organization for National Transplantation (ONT), which places trained administrators in hospitals to not only be able to identify organ donors but spend time with families to increase the likelihood of consent for the deceased. Spain's model allows for families to be asked to confirm that their loved one's did not opt–out at some point prior to their death. Therefore, if they refuse then their decision will be respected. Their model has decreased family refusals from 40–70% in the 1990's to approximately 15% in 2006. As it currently stands, many countries around the globe, including the United States, have the contrary. One is presumed to not want to donate their organs unless an individual registers for organ donation. This feels quite antiquated and we should be following in Spain's footsteps to change to a presumed consent system, which also ultimately allows one's family to have veto power. This would not only be a step in the right direction, because as proven, individuals and families would be more willing to consent and could possibly help reduce the donor shortage in the United States, and across the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 73. Organ Trafficking Organ Trafficking Organ trafficking is one of the great issues that is faced by the society today. It is a practice of stealing people's organ through surgery under the influence of drugs or from a dead person, and the organs are normally sold in black market such as China. South Africa, and Russia. WHO has estimated that one–fifth of the 70,000 kidneys that are transplanted every year come from the black market through a widespread organ–trafficking networks. In my opinion, organ trafficking has become an international trade due to several reasons. First of all, an organ trafficking market has created due to remarkably high demand for body parts from all over the world. Many people refuse to donate their organs even after they die has ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... * Every hospital has a tout. In fact, the doctors or nephrologists will often suggest a person that you can contact to get a kidney. They charge up to US$10,000. * The recipients were wealthy clients in India and other countries. Some of them were from Greece, Arab countries, United States and one or two patients from European countries." Opening sentence: Organ trafficking is the practice of stealing people's organs via surgery while they are under the influence of drugs, or once the person is dead, when the organs can be illicitly removed and then used for further purposes such as transplants or sold on the black market such as in China, South Africa, and Russia. Thesis statement: Organ trafficking has become international trade due to several reasons. Topic sentence 1: A remarkably high demand for body parts has created organ trafficking market. But wherever there is demand there is a market. Supporting detail 1: With the advent of organ transplantation more than thirty years ago, the human body has quickly created a demand for replacement parts. Supporting detail 2: The global demand for organs has surpassed organ donation in most cases, thus creating a market economy of organ trade. Supporting detail 3: With the scarcity of consensual organ donors worldwide, a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 75. Roles In Major Organs Essay Lauren Mannix August 25, 2015 BIO 120.Homework Roles & Major Organs In Main Organ Systems (11) 1. Integumentary a) Major Organs: Nails, Hair, Skin b) Role in Body: The integumentary system protects underlying tissues in the body from external forces, regulates and maintains body temperature, is responsible for sensation from outside stimuli, provides immunity, takes part in vitamin D synthesis, and allows the excretion of salt, water, and other chemicals. 2. Skeletal a) Major Organs: Bones & Joints b) Role in Body: The skeletal system provides support for soft tissues placed on muscles, provides protection (ex. skull), assists in movement (bones=levers), releases and stores minerals, takes place in blood cell reproduction, stores energy, ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Respiratory a) Major Organs: Lung, Trachea, Bronchus, Larynx, Pharynx, Nasal cavity b) Role in Body: The respiratory system is responsible for gas exchange. It supplies O2/removes CO2 in order for cell respiration to take place. 9. Digestive a) Major Organs: Liver, Stomach, Small intestine, Large intestine, Rectum, Anus, Oral cavity, Esophagus b) Role in Body: The digestive system is responsible for digestion (mechanical + chemical), absorption, and movement along GI tract. 10. Urinary a) Major Organs: Urinary bladder, Urethra, Ureter, kidney b) Role in Body: The urinary system filters blood in order to remove metabolic wastes, toxins, excess water, and salts. It is also involved in the regulation of water, salt, blood pressure, and PH. 11. Reproductive System Male
  • 76. a) Major Organs: Penis, Testis, Scrotum, Ductus deferens, Prostate gland b) Role in Body: The reproductive system in males is ultimately used for the production of offspring by producing male sex hormones and sperm in order to be moved into the female reproductive system. 12. Reproductive System Female a) Major Organs: Ovary, Vagina, Uterus, Uterine tube, Mammary glands ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 78. Organ Donation Compensation for Organ Donation Many people's lives come to an end earlier than expected. When this happens, families mourn the loss of the loved one. However, do people mourn the loss of another life if the individual is not an organ donor? The National Kidney Foundation believes that "legalizing payments of human organs" should continue to be opposed, as codified in the third title of the National Organ Transplant Act. (National Kidney Foundation 220). If this title is changed, then there will be multiple unexpected side effects that could corrupt the system of organ donation to people who need the organs. What exactly would define the price of saving a life? Who is paying the cost of the organ? Many things could backlash from the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Organ receivers around the country would have to have the money to pay for the organ before having the procedure done. These issues could ultimately affect all economically disadvantaged people in need of organs. The cost of a kidney is easily in the range of thousands to hundred–thousands of dollars. Being paid to donate an organ would include monetary rewards, free or cheaper insurance, or a lower cost of taxes. This may highly appeal to people with lower incomes, or the economically disadvantaged. These statements were released by the National Kidney Foundation: Offering money for organs can be viewed as an attempt to coerce economically disadvantaged Americans to participate in organ donation. Furthermore, since the economically disadvantaged have been shown to be less likely to be organ transplant candidates, financial incentives for organ donation could be characterized as exploitation (National Kidney Foundation 221). This contingency comes to state that the financially disadvantaged are proven to be less likely to donate. Therefore, financial compensation may pressure some people into donating organs despite the health risks. Financial compensation may argue against itself. A key example is that some people may not be able to afford medical bills, so they decide to donate a kidney to pay other bills. However, if the donation of a kidney worsens the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 80. Organ Transplants : An Organ Donation Yazmin G. Urrea J. Forsythe English 1 A January 20, 2015 Donating Organs Did you know that over one hundred thousand people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ donation? Do you know what an organ transplant is? An organ transplant is when an organ is replaced, a failing organ with a healthy organ from another person. The reason behind an organ transplant is to help people who have organs failing, and those people that have some sort of disease in their organs. When you become a donor, you help improve research in many ways possible, with some of the organs donated; doctors have found more and more information in order to help people with failing organs. Donating organs can help save hundreds if not thousands regularly; also it gives comfort for grieving families because even though the people in their family died they know that they did something in order to save someone else's life. Did you know that most people get transplants because they have a disease which needs help? The cornea is the most commonly transplanted tissues in fact, more than four hundred thousand corneal transplants occur in the United States a year. Organ recipients are selected with basic information starting with medical needs, location and compatibility. In most countries, it is illegal to sell and buy organs, but international black markets increase around the world. Organ transplants should be encouraged and we should encourage other people to donate for many reasons. Would you help save someone's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...