Organ Donation

Organ donation may seem easy for some, but for others it's a more complex decision. Certain people may interfere with their cultural backgrounds or some may have heard myths about how it's not good. Common myths have been proven wrong. Donating can also be the way to potentially save a persons life without being the actual doctor not all people can handle or find intriguing. Organ donation is important for many reasons. It enhances lives, lowers the number of people waiting, and it is extremely rare.

There are many organs/tissues that can be donated depending on a persons death. The heart, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines, corneas, skin, tendons, bone, and heart valves are all the possible donations. If one person gives their body to donate, it is possible to enhance 50 people's lives making living for them much simpler and enjoyable. One person can also save 8 people's lives. The family one may leave behind will have the upmost heartening feeling knowing that the decision to save someone was made.

Only 40% of people will sign up to donate. That number is so low because most people don't have the education on organ donation. Their are currently 120,000 people in the US alone waiting on the list to get an organ transplant and 1000 in Kentucky alone. Approximately 22 people die everyday waiting for a transplant they never got because their isn't enough donators. Donating organs will decrease the number of people waiting and increase the number of people receiving.

Organ donation is extremely rare. To be able to donate organs, someone has to be declared brain dead by a physician. Not everyone can donate because not everyone dies the way it's needed to harvest all the organs. Depending on the time of death and damage to the body, if someone didn't die of head trauma, aneurysm, etc. they might be able to harvest tissue instead of organs. People are 6