Persuasive Speech On Organ Donation

“Everyday, 79 people receive a transplant, but at least 20 people die waiting, because of the shortage of donated organs.” (Brazier) Due to the shortage of organs, this causes many people to go to extreme measures to save a loved one. Maybe even to the point of doing something illegal. The more we help promote and contribute to organ donation, the more lives we can save.

David Trujillo is a 29-year-old man who was born with renal dysplasia, which caused his kidneys to be too small to work correctly. He has needed four kidney transplants in his life, receiving the first when he was four years old. One kidney came from his father, his aunt, his uncle, and his brother. All four transplants have been successful, and without the transplants Trujillo would have to receive dialysis three times a week for four hours a day (Knoll, 2012). Trujillo’s family has been remarkably generous in donating their own kidneys to keep Trujillo alive. Others, however, are not as lucky as Trujillo.

For over 13 year I have worked in healthcare and I have seen multiple patients die from organ failure as they waited on the transplant list. I’ve seen patients lose their quality of life as they sit in hospitals for weeks and months at a time as they waited for a kidney transplant. I also know people who have donated the organs of their loved ones and were blessed to know that their loss was the beginning of another person’s life.

Did you know that 121,678 people are currently on lifesaving organ transplant lists and of that 121,678 people, 100,791 of them await kidney transplants?

1. Organ donation is a selfless way to give back to others, and to be able to make a huge difference by giving another person a second chance at life.

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If someone offered you thousands of dollars for your kidneys, would you sell it? 120,000 people in US are on waiting list for life saving organ transplant. An average 22 people die every day from lack of available organs. If you had the chance of saving those people, would you not want to help? Because after all, all lives matter. Imagine that you are currently on dialysis because your kidneys are failing. You are just sitting there on a long wait list hoping for a donor to come along and give you an opportunity to spend more time with your family on this earth. You know your chances are slim, and if you had the opportunity to buy a kidney legally, would you not do it? Many people would, and many people already do so even though it is illegal in our country to purchase an organ. My purpose is to persuade you to act and change the current policy of prohibition of human organ sales to prevent further unnecessary deaths. There is a definite problem that is facing our country. More people are dying every year from sitting on a waiting list for an organ to be donated, if selling your organs were legalized the chances of survival would be much greater.

Lack of organ donors is a major issue worldwide and we can help them by giving them a gift of life.

By this time tomorrow, 12 people in America who are alive right now will be dead.

How do you feel when you have to wait for something that you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? Imagine you are lying in a hospital bed and you have no choice but to impatiently wait for that one organ you and your body are depending on to survive. Many people face this struggle every day. These people are waiting on a list for their perfect match… the perfect person to be their organ donor. An organ donor is a person who has an organ, or several organs, removed in ordered to be transplanted into another person.

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Around the world there are millions of people, who suffer from kidney disease. However, globally there were 64,606 kidney-transplant operations in 2007. Donating Donating organs is one of the biggest problems around the world people need the donation of the organs, people who are dying at the hospital depend on it. Not everyone is able to afford a donation, they are really expensive, that's unfair in the sense that because someone has more money than some else they should be more important than someone else. The waiting list for a organ donor is also really bad, people have to wait years for a donation, because of how the list is people died like it said in the article that out of 64,606 people need it a transplant only 16,500 receive one.

What can be done in 4.5 years? A child can be born and learn to walk and talk in 4.5 years. A middle schooler can move to high school and graduate. A college student could get their diploma. A new president could be elected. Imagine watching little miracles like first steps, or a graduation, or a new election from the screen of a cell phone in a hospital beds. This is the life for thousands of kidney transplant patients that haven't yet found a donor. The obvious problem is that the United States has a major shortage of kidneys for transplants; however, this problem could easily be solved with a type of payment for kidney donation.

Everyday, twenty-two people die waiting for an organ transplant. Patients on the donor list are in need of an organ and are depending on it for survival. Some patients are on the list for weeks, months, even years with sno match. Comparatively, 6,316 people die every hour with viable organs that can be used. Doctors are not legally allowed to use these organs unless given consent by only the patient before death. If all U.S. citizens donated their organs, transplantations could occur and save thousands of lives each year. Organ donation should be required in the United States because of the significant number of lives that could be saved everyday.

With those odds, at least 5 individuals will go into organ failure within the time limit of this class period.