...people are added to the national transplant waiting list and 17 people die unnecessarily simply because the organ they need is not available. This is a crisis and it has a cure. Almost everyone has the power to save their live, including you and me. Imagine that for the past 5 years you have been to hospital 3 times a week for dialysis, the only thing can help you at this point is a new kidney, because the dialysis is not a lifetime solution. Think about how frustrating and anxious you might be to live a life waiting for a organ transplant that could be much more easily if a great amount of people donate it. After a transplant of a vital organ, the average survival rate is over 80%. A massive increase from the 20% that would live without the surgery. With medical breakthroughs, and a organ and tissue donation, you can help save the live of many people all over the world. One person who donates organs (hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines) can save up to ten lives, while a tissue donor (corneas, bone, skin, heart valves, tendons, veins, etc.) can improve 12 or more lives by restoring eyesight, helping fight infections in burn patients and preventing the loss of mobility and disability. When asked if they would like to become organ donors, many people ask themselves "Why should I donate my organs? What are the benefits? " For many people the topic of organ donation can be a touchy one. Many people have religious beliefs against the practice, or apply...
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...BECOMING AN ORGAN DONOR By the time this day ends approximately eighteen people will have died needlessly. Not due to car crashes, gang violence or drug overdoses. Surprisingly they will have died from the simple act of waiting. They died while waiting for a much needed organ donation to replace their failing organ. For days, weeks even months they had hoped to receive news that somebody, somewhere had selflessly volunteered to donate their organs upon their death to another human being living on borrowed time. That news never came and time ran out. Perfectly good organs were buried with another non-donor who had no use for them anyhow because that person was already dead, yet without agreeing to give up their organs upon their death another life will be lost. Everyone can help to save lives by donating your vital organs after you have passed away. You will have no further need for them and I promise, you won’t even notice they are gone. 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? Nearly 80,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Hundreds of thousands more would benefit from a life enhancing tissue transplant. Each day, averages of 75 people receive organ transplants. However, averages of 20 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs. Every eleven minutes another name is added to an organ donation...
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...Virtually anyone can become an organ donor. On average, approximately 30 people die everyday due to a shortage of available organ donors. “Statistics show that there are more than 114,895 Americans awaiting their organ transplants, while millions of people die each year without signing up as organ and tissue donors” (“Be an Organ Donor - Learn More on Organ Donation.”). Often times, drivers who perish in car accidents, and others who die suddenly who have not declared themselves to be organ donors will be buried with all of their viable, healthy organs. This takes the chance to live a healthy away from a person dying of organ failure. Organ donation can offer an improved quality of life for the recipient. Not only is there a severe shortage...
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...Become an Organ Donor Marylou Schreiner COMM/215 January 13, 2014 Ruth Palumbo Become an Organ Donor The New Year is here and it’s the time of year full of cheer, love, gift giving, and resolutions. Why not consider the resolution of giving the gift of life by becoming an organ donor? According to the Mayo Clinic, “over 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ donation. (Mayo Clinic 2013).In fact, the latest number from UNOS is 120,860. In additions eighteen people will die every day waiting for the life saving organ to come. They will never receive the call stating, “we found a match.” The call that can that give them a second chance at life. Most of us don’t think about what happens to the body after you die. It is a sensitive subject matter people prefer not to think about, let alone discuss with their families and friends. However, everyone should take the time to discuss the importance of, “how can I help others if I were to die? Various questions should be asked: Why should I donate my organs? What are the benefits? Are there any reasons not to? What happens to me? These are excellent questions that can be answered by viewing the OrganDonor.gov website. Many people do not think about signing a donor card because of the many myths surrounding organ transplant and tissue donation. Most of these myths are not true and are based on fear. Some of these fears include: the hospital staff won’t work as hard to save my life, maybe I won’t...
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...Become an Organ Donor “Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep (Sandbury, n.d.).” By this time tomorrow, 12 people in America who are alive right now will be dead. Not because they were in a car wreck, Not because they were gunned down, Not because their time had come, not even because they were not in the hospital, but simply because they could not be given a life-saving transplant in time. 12 people will die because the organ transplant they need will not be possible. Money is not the issue here, nor is scarcity. Each day, there are more than enough potential donors who pass away who could meet all the needs of people on the waiting list. The problem is those potential donors die without leaving instructions that they are prepared to help someone live after them. And this is an issue on an enormous scale. Currently, nearly 60,000 Americans are waiting for a life saving organ transplant. Hundreds of thousands more would benefit from a life enhancing tissue transplant. And yet every day 12 people will die while awaiting a transplant. And every 16 minutes another name is added to the waiting list. Here is the real tragedy: It truly is so easy to fix this problem. Fortunately, there is an amazing network across the United States that links hospitals with one another and can match donors with potential patients. In addition, there is another reliable and sophisticated organizations running like the United Network for Organ Sharing which...
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...Why is being an Organ Donor beneficial? The two simple words Organ Donor can stir up many different emotions in many different people. It might frighten one person while it stirs up compassion in another person. Being an organ donor is much more complicated than just walking around with a little red heart on your license. This very important practice of being an organ donor needs and must continue throughout the United Sates. Most people think that for donation to occur you need to be dead, but that myth is wrong, you can donate when you are still living. Also, being an Organ Donor it provides you with the unique once in a lifetime opportunity to save someone’s life. Donation after you die is extremely rare due to the way that you should die....
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...Become An Organ Donor” If you knew that you could, for sure, save someone’s life, would you? Do you hate waiting for something that you really want, or, perhaps, cannot live without? If your answer is yes, then you should become an organ donor today. Be a hero. We all know what it is like to have to wait for something that we really want, but we have never physically died because we didn’t have it. On average, twenty-two people die everyday while waiting for an organ. That brings the death count to over eight thousand a year! Isn’t that awful? Numbers don’t lie. For every fourteen people that need an organ, there is only one organ donor. This ratio makes me cringe, but the horrific facts do not stop here. According to organdonor.gov 122,620 people are currently in need of an organ. By the time you finish reading this, another name will be added to the list....
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...reality, compensation for organ donors is unethical as it provokes selfishness and hypocrisy when the true motive for donation should rely on the goodness of the heart. Although payment for organ donations is illegal in the United States, it is legal to sell blood plasma. The outcome of this system indicates how the organ donation network would change if it were to begin compensating its donors. Those who sell plasma have exhibited greed as Rogers stated, “When you get that $50, you feel good...I paid my gas bill” (Lopez, 2015, p. 2). Just as this woman traded her plasma for money, Wade reflects from her transaction and admits that she, “Gets uncomfortable thinking about the huge business she is a small part of, pumping plasma so she can...
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...Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you didn't have temporal lobe association areas? What would you hear? What would you understand? What would you feel? Imagine functioning without certain brain areas. What would it be like to talk on the phone to your mother if you...
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...prosper. However, the appearance of Putera Serapi made the princesses love struck. The prince asked both of them to marry him but they refused to share. The princesses quarreled over the prince which also caused the villagers to fight amongst each other. Puteri Sejinjang hit Puteri Santubong on the cheek with her rice pounder and Puteri Santubong countered by striking her with her belidak, the tool she uses for weaving. Both princesses died and were cursed to become mountains, Gunung Santubong and Gunung Sejinjang. Based on Vladimir Propp’s seven spheres of action, seeing that Raja Kayangan had sent the two princesses to aid the people of the villages, he acts as the Dispatcher and by granting them special abilities he is also the Donor and the Helper. This in turn makes the princesses Heroes. The Princess, or in this folklore’s case, the Prince is the one that Puteri Santubong and Puteri Sejinjang wants to marry; Putera Serapi. But by ending the peace between the two villages also causes the princesses to become False Heroes ergo the Villains. The only binary opposition that can be found in the story is the time which the princesses chose to do their work. Puteri Santubong preferred to weave cloth at night time because the air was cooler while Puteri Sejinjang liked to pound rice during the day when the air was...
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...Selling Human Organ A farmer in an Indian village wants more than anything else in the world to send his child to college. To raise money, he sells his spare kidney to an American in need of a transplant. A few years later, as the farmer’s second child approaches college age, another buyer comes to his village and offers a handsome price for his second kidney. Should he be free to sell that one, too, even if going without a kidney would kill him (Sandel 72)? Some might object that, regardless of whether the practice already exists, it is clear that legalizing it would make it worse. Not only that, but it seems like the person would become like a marketplace selling his organs. If someone had mentioned that they want to donate their kidney to someone and dies, then it is fine. Then suppose that the person starts selling his kidney or any other organ of his body. Basically he or she is doing it for money, but what if the person's other kidney got damaged? Then what would the person do? Besides it will be a stronger cause of corruption because many people are poor and need money to feed their families so they sell their kidneys; however, this may cause future health problems to that person. Selling organs is wrong and it should not be allowed. Selling an organ is menacing, even for those organs which can be removed without killing the donor. Murphy say,“isn’s it more dangerous to have black market organ transactions?”(1). This is normally the first protestation embossed after...
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...The outside of your view Organ and tissue harvesting is a very big issue. People die every single day and or suffer from pain. The organs go to the doctors to tell for money, and the needed organ goes to someone who needs it. Organ removal, while not as prevalent as sex and labor trafficking, is quite real and widespread. Those targeted are sometimes killed or left for dead. More frequently poor and desperate people are lured by false promises.( Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka) The reason that they take poor and desperate people is because of these people have really nothing to fight for. They don’t know what’s going to happen when they go to trust someone who promises that they will be in a better place. Also they will get food and a place to go, but yet, they don’t go anywhere but a surgery table. This goes back a while. Like years and years. It’s mostly in china. But it also happens in other places too. Like in the Africa area and Egypt ect. In china, they do it in a different way. They do it in rooms like in hospitals and also right in public. They go on public streets and do the surgery. Everyone can see what happens and people sit there and watch too. This is okay in china; you cannot get in trouble from doing this. It’s normal there. Organ and tissue harvesting is basically a type of human trafficking where sick people either kidnap or trick people of all ages to come in to get surgery. When they get surgery, a lot goes on. They get put down to sleep...
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...what is cloning, the pros and cons of cloning, and how to fix this controversial issue. Cloning is a cell or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which is was derived from. Cloning can be done on animals, plants, food, and even humans. The three types of cloning are Gene, Reproductive, and Therapeutic Cloning. Gene cloning creates copies the DNA, Reproductive cloning involves copies of animals, and Therapeutic cloning deals with stem cells in human beings body. One of the pros from cloning is that it can replace internal organs and tissue. Embryonic stem cells can grow and produce new organs and tissue from the damaged one. When patients are in need of a transplant, instead of waiting for an organ donor, they would just clone their organs and tissues. So if someone got into a car accident and needed a new heart and a new face, cloning would produce the organ so they could have another organ and the tissue so they could make his face without scars. Another pro for cloning is it being the solution to couples who have infertility issues. There are couples in this would who have problems producing kids...
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...Time COM 172 March 21, 2012 Dr. Yvette Irizarry Extending Human Life One Chip at a Time How long would you like to live? It is undeniably that scientists and technology are predestined to mend and prolong people natural lifespan expectancy. This, due to the emergence and advancements of a new technology era with highly specialized medical doctors, along with; biologists and bioengineers, electronics, chemists and chemical engineers, physicists, and mechanical engineers all working together in an orchestrated choreographed process around the globe. Novelties in nanotechnology, sustained living tissue reproduction, bio-hybrid organ devices and microfluidics platforms have evolved from a concept of fantasy to a revolutionized reality. Available technology has migrated into the medical world, allowing scientists to develop several human organs utilizing microfluidics platform technology. Harvard University has developed a highly refined lung on-a-chip that embodies numerous forms of tissues. “We started with the simplest embodiment of human airway and capillary cells, and then introduced immune cells” (Ingber, 2010, p. 661). The chip consists of micro-channels parted by a malleable micrometer tissue. A single conduit encompasses air sacks lining like human lungs, and the other channel conveys capillaries, and to emulate blood flow, it has liquids flowing. The chip highlights the cells’ behavior and fluctuations when they are stretched. The size of the chip is made of human...
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...among them is organ printing. Organ printing uses specially designed three-dimensional printers to layer live cells into working organs. This practice has several implications for the environment, with its energy usage, and society, relating to its medical applications, both now and in the future with its continuous development. Keywords: Organ, printing, impacts, society, environment Organ printing, otherwise known as ‘bioprinting’ is a technology that has advanced in recent years. Scientists are able to recreate some organs or human tissue using three-dimensional printers that are then used in organ transplants or for research purposes. According to Ventola (2014), this reduces the number...
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