Critical Analysis Of Our Own Warrior Princes By Maureen Dowd

During the length of the presentation, I think the main aspect the speaker pointed out is on issues of how few people wanting to become donors, which it resulted to an extremely long waiting list of critically-ill people hoping to be the next one to received an organ or tissue transplant. For that reason alone, many are dying every year waiting for organ transplant. For example, an 18 months old named April who died waiting for a heart valve donor that she did not had. On the other side, the speaker pointed out the 2 types of organ and tissue donors which are, donor after pronounced brain death and cardio-circulatory death. Additionally, she discussed the process involves in organ and tissue donation in a timely

90% of Americans support organ donation; however, only 30% know the essential steps to donate organs (National Kidney Foundation). Medical providers view this statistic as a reason to offer a new procedure for donating organs: creating an enterprise of organs. An organ market inspires healthy patients to donate organs by offering money in exchange of organs. If individuals benefit from donating organs, more organs will be donated, resulting in more transplants. However, a business centered around organs is not ethical; donors should provide organs for the well-being of the people, not money. Consider the suffering that those requiring transplants face; they should not additionally agonize about affording treatments. Rather than finding alternate

Rylee Pearce Mrs. Combs English IIII 29 Nov 2016 Organ Donation in the U.S.     In 2015 there were 122,071 patients waiting for an organ transplant, but only 15, 062 donors. The number of patients increases rapidly while the number of willing donors increases at a slower rate. In the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman, there is a compromise between  pro-life and pro-choice, this compromise also benefits organ donation.  “...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.” (Shusterman 224).

If a writer is opposed to organ donation, he or she may pull support for his or her claim from sources a, b, d, e, and/or f. Writers may explain how people are reluctant to donate because of their mistrust in medical field, lack of understanding, religion, and the way that television shows portray the medical community. Although sources a and b lean towards support, they may be used to provide reasoning and background as to why one should dispute

“6,935 people are dying because they had to wait. That’s 19 people dying per day for an entire year”(Barry). That’s nearly 7,000 lives; which is equivalent to to almost 25% of the current undergraduate body here at UW-Madison. According to Dr. Chris Barry, a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center, “19 people die per day on the organ donor recipient list because there aren’t enough people signing their organ donor consent forms”. He proposes that we need to increase people's knowledge and tear down the myths and barriers of organ donation to facilitate their decision to donate.

First, I will discuss the ever-growing need for organ donors in the United States, and the untrue claims against becoming one.

“Each year almost 5,000 people die in the United States while waiting for organ transplants. Thus, cadaveric organs are extremely valuable resources whose allocation literally has life and death implications. Address how the following factors should be relevant to allocation (or whether they are indeed relevant at all): medical condition, probability of success, geographic location, waiting time, ability to pay, age, family status, and behavioral causes of organ failure” (Weimer, Vining, 201l, pg.155).

The medical industry had been achieving more in the stage of medical advancements, though they are still in the early phase. Artificial organs have been one of those achievements. Although they have achieved such, artificial organs are not perfect. Most doctors as well as patients would prefer to replace a dying organ with a compatible human organ, rather than with an artificial or animal organ. Yet due to a there being less organs donated than recipients, artificial and animal organs are becoming more common in transplants. Most of this issue is because people are unaware of how organ donation works, the organs that can be donated, how many people are in need, and the advancements that have happened in the field. Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year, but many lives are recklessly lost due to a shortage of organ donors.

The need of human organs for transplantation increases every single day and every passing month. Thousands of people are on the waiting list hoping for a chance at a new life. Unfortunately, the supply of available organs through organ donations is not able to provide for the growing demand of organs. According to a research conducted by the Hasting Center, “there are close to 100,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney, heart, liver, lung, and intestines, the pressure to find ways to increase their supply is enormous (Capland, 2014, p. 214). The shortage of human organs is leading people to participate in unethical acts. The pressure of finding available organs has resulted in healthcare professional and

Every day, 20 people die because they are unable to receive a vital organ transplant that they need to survive. Some of these people are on organ donation lists and some of them are not. The poor and minorities are disproportionately represented among those who do not receive the organs they need. In the United States alone, nearly 116,000 people are on waiting lists for vital organ transplants. Another name is added to this list every 10 minutes. This paper will argue that organ donation should not be optional. Every person who dies, or enters an irreversible vegetative state with little or no brain function, should have his or her organs-more specifically, those among the organs that are suitable for donation-harvested. A single healthy donor who has died can save up to eight lives (American Transplant Foundation).

The lack of organs in a transplant centers is a reality that affects patients in need of a transplant. Not having enough organs has made patients wait for years and in worst case scenarios patients die while waiting for a transplant. For Hajikarimi, a 52-year-old Iranian mother of two who’s kidney failed has a possibility of having a transplant done within a year. Thankfully in Iran, organ sales are legal and their system safeguard itself against the black market by handling transactions through nonprofit groups for all arrangements regarding organ sales. Hajikarimi chances of life are higher than an American mother of two going through the same unfortunate situation. The organ shortage is making patients and their families take alternate route

The need for organ donors dramatically increases each year because the number of organ donors grows much more slowly. “Every 10 minutes another person is added to the waiting list” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). Since people are being added to the waiting list so frequently, the need for registered donors is greater than the need for support of donation. Most people agree with organ donation, but few are actually registered as organ donors. “In fact, 95% of U.S. adults support organ donation but only 54% are actually signed up as organ donors” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). The amount of people who need organs grows everyday, but the lack of individuals who are registered to donate could cause tremendous problems in the future.

Every ten minutes a new person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list – a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a brother, or a sister (1). As of September 2014, more than 123,000 people currently need an organ transplant. Surely if everyone was an organ donor, there would be more than enough viable organs for all of those people. However, because not everyone is indeed an organ donor, approximately 21 people die each day due to a lack of organs. Now this might not seem like a rather large number, but it amounts to about 7,000 people each year – people who could be saved. Statistics show that although 90% of Americans are in favor and support organ donation, only about 30% know the procedure to actually become an organ donor.

Hundreds of lives are saved each year from generous organ donations. The gift of a donated organ is not only an organ but is also the gift of a new life for the patient. Though some patients are not lucky enough to experience this new life because of the long search for a compatible organ. The shortage of organs is an effect of people not wanting to donate organs because the donor receives nothing in return except a good feeling. For the last several centuries, doctors have been relying on humanities favorable morals to donate organs, but humanity has changed and people do not wish to perform acts of heroism without an award. Sally Satel received a kidney in 2006 and states,” Yet, it is lethally obvious that altruism is not a valid basis for transplant policy. If we keep thinking of organs solely as gifts, there will never be enough of them” (226). In order to increase the number of organs available, a new system needs to be put in place to increase organ donations. The medical field can no longer rely on humanities selflessness to persuade people to donate healthy, working organs. The solution to this problem is to establish a market for organs; the supply of organs people hope for can only be reached by offering benefits to the donor. Kidneys and other organs would become more abundant and the waiting period would decrease for the patient.

In the United States today, people lose their lives to many different causes. Though this is tragic, there are also a large group of people who could benefit from these deaths; and those people are people in need of an organ transplant. Although a sudden or tragic death can be heart breaking to a family, they could feel some relief by using their loved ones' organs to save the lives of many others. This act of kindness, though, can only be done with consent of both the victim and the family; making the donation of organs happen much less than is needed. The need for organs is growing every day, but the amount provided just is not keeping up. Because of the great lack of organ donors, the constant need for organs,