Organ Donation
By: Madie Curry
Benefits of Organ Donate
The biggest benefit of doing this is just saving a life and giving someone a second chance at life. One single person can save up to 50 lives. If everyone would become a organ donor we could save up to 1,000 life's. There is 72,792 on the waiting list for organ right now!
http://www.organdonor.gov/becomingdonor/
Be someone's hero
Give life
What can you donate?
Organs : Lungs, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, intestines.
Tissues : Cornea, skin, bone marrow, heart valves, middle ear, tendon
Fun Facts
- An open-casket funeral is possible for organ and tissue donors.
Information about an organ donor is only released to the recipient if the family of the donor requests or agrees to it. Otherwise, a patient’s privacy is maintained for both donor families and recipient
21 people die every day while waiting for a transplant.
Any one can be an organ donor regardless of age, race, or medical history
There is no cost to donate
scourses
I would recommend that everyone take time and check them out they out and read up about them!
http://donatelife.net/organ-donation/
https://www.unos.org/donation/facts/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/organ-donation/art-20047529
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20organ-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0