...Living Through Dying Organ donation can be a very difficult decision, which could be made easier through increased education and awareness on donating. Through my years as a Respiratory Therapist I have been exposed to the organ donation process. It can be a difficult decision for a patient’s family especially if it has not been communicated to the family what the individual wants. While it is a tough decision for some, the choice to donate a loved one’s organs means a second chance at life for people on organ waiting lists across the country. When patients are pronounced brain dead they are usually being kept physically alive on life support. Life support for these patients consists of a mechanical ventilator, which breathes for the patient as well as intravenous medications that help various bodily functions. The process for organ donation seems pretty clear cut, however the person making the decision is usually under a high degree of emotional distress, which presents the major gap in the debate about organ donation. It may be easier to go through the thinking process while not in mental distress over the loss (or the potential loss) of a loved one. In my experience as a respiratory therapist, I have been witness to families dealing with the sudden shock of losing a loved one traumatically, and there is no denying the emotion. Capacity to make decisions that are logical and precise are greatly diminished when handling the death of a loved one, especially when they...
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...DONATION TO NATIVE AMERICANS ON RESERVATIONS Prepared for Jeff Berlinger Technical Department Manager Prepared by Kevin Simons Technical Department Intern October 6, 2013 MEMORANDUM OF TRANSMITTAL TO: Jeff Berlinger, Technical Department Manager FROM: Justin Testa, Technical Department Intern DATE: October 6, 2013 RE: Donation of Technical Equipment to Native Americans on Reservations Thank you for approving my request to research donating our technical equipment to Native Americans on reservations. Kroger has a wonderful and unique opportunity to aid Native Americans with this one time donation of technical equipment, without forfeiting any donations to their local charities. The technical equipment would consist of six large color copiers, 55 laptops, and 75 desk top computers. All of the equipment is from the Corporate Offices in Cincinnati and at the present time is not ear marked for any destination. My research shows there is a need for this type of donation. This one time donation will bring national attention to the needs of Native Americans and continue to confirm Kroger as the leading contributor to those in need. Attached you will find an executive summary and a detailed report with my conclusion and recommendations. If you have any questions on this report please email me at testaj27@yahoo.com. TABLE OF...
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...store, and the canned food drives everywhere you go. But have you ever thought that when you handed the man wearing a Santa Clause hat a canned food item or your hand-me-down jeans that you could be damaging another countries economy? Although your donation was courteous, it was also a harmful action to a another country's economy. On the subject of donations and its effect on the economy, two supporting essays are, Charles Kenny “Haiti Doesn’t Need Your Old T-Shirt” and Tate Watkins “How Olibert(e), the Anti-TOMS, Make Shoes and Jobs in Africa”. In a likely manner, they both demonstrate the impacts that...
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...Organ donation, at the present time, has become an increasingly vital part in our modern society, which meanwhile, attracts a large number of people’s attention. When people die, organ donation should be mandatory which has been proven to be highly controversial. Therefore, some people point out that organ donation should be compulsory, whilst the rest hold such a view that organ donation should depend on only owners’ will. This essay will explore whether it should be or should not be mandatory for everyone to donate one of their organs when they die. First of all, some claim that organ donation should be compulsory that brings considerable benefits to many people. On the one hand, there are not enough organs for patients who need organ transplantation to save their life. So, many people died caused by insufficient organ donations. If so, it can solve the lack of organs. On the other hand, many people are spending exorbitant amount of money to buy organs via black market merchants or from other illicit media. It leads to the highly rates of crime. Only if organ donation is mandatory, people can obtain organ from the legal way and also can reduce the crime rates. However, supported by some other people, the argument that organ donation should not be compulsory also carries numerous merits. Firstly, keeping the body in one piece can be found as a religious or superstitious believes among several dominating civilizations or countries until today. Because everyone has their...
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...Pro’s and con’s of organ donation -Theis TEXT 1: We must change the organ donation system – An article written by Denis Campbell, published in The Guardian News. The narrator Denis Campbell stays very neutral to the issue throughout the whole article and he only seems interested in knowing other peoples opinion. As a result of such he interviewed two different persons and had their opinion on the matter. Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer in England – States that he wants the current system switched in the UK. He, among many people in the UK thinks change is overdue. The current system for organ donation in the UK have an opt-in system that only allows retrieving of organs from citizens who either have a donor card or are signed up in the Organ Donor Register. He would like the whole policy of organ donation to change into what’s known as presumed consent which allows the retrieving of organs from all citizens after their death that haven’t already, before death, refused permission for that to happen. His argument for the system change lies within the massive organs that are wasted. The organs of all the citizens who haven’t got a donor card or are registered for donation will be wasted because they simply didn’t care about organ donation. By changing the system no dead citizen or his/hers family will get upset and organ donation will be possible for a way larger group than now. Natalie Sillince – Explains how the current system forced a very unpleasant and...
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...Name and Section: Speech Title: Organ Donation Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to not only donate their organs, but to take care to ensure there is action taken upon their decisions. Organizational Pattern: Problem-Solution order Introduction I. Attention Getter: We all know how it feels to wait for something, that eager, antsy feeling that overwhelms you when you’re placed on a waiting list for something that you really want. Now, imagine that the waiting list you are on is over 121,000 people long. And the item you are waiting on is a matter of life and death. (http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/about-transplant/facts-and-myths/) II. Thesis: There is an ever growing need for organ donation and donating can be a simple process to complete. III. Credibility Statement: On average, 22 people per day die on the organ transplant list due to organ donor shortages. (http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/about-transplant/facts-and-myths/) IV. Preview Statement: The purpose of this presentation is to persuade listeners to donate organs by presenting the critical need for donors, share the benefits of donating, and debunk some widely believed myths. My hope is that I will share enough information that a non-donor will become a donor or a donor will take action to ensure their organ donation after death. Body Transition: There is a great need for organ donors. Unfortunately, there are over 121,000 people on the transplant waiting list and only about...
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...but nybloodcenter.org stated that 60% of Americans are eligible to donate blood. Is donating blood dangerous? According to bloodcenters.org giving blood is 100 percent safe. Donating blood is safe then everyone should donate. The blood you donate can be the reason why some people are still alive. Specific Purpose: After listening to my presentation the audience will know 3 benefits of donating blood. Transition statement: I will now tell you some of the benefits blood donation can bring. One of the benefits of donating blood is health: Blood donation removes some of the excess iron, which can cause free radical formation in the body. Blood donation can help with iron overload. According to voices.yahoo.com Studies have shown that men who donate blood on a regular basis have a lower risk of heart disease. With heart disease being the number one cause of death in males, this is, indeed, an important health benefit of donating blood. Transition statement: the second benefit of blood donation is A FREE, yes FREE, Mini check-up. Before donating blood, donors are asked for a brief health history and tested for basic physical health. You...
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...Body I. The shortage of organs is a serious problem with many contributing factors. A. We all herd different reasons from one person or another why you shouldn’t be an organ donor but all of them are just myths. 1. For example, have you ever heard that if you are in an accident and the hospital realizes you are an organ donor, then the doctors will not try as hard to save your life? a. According to Organdonor.gov, this is not true because a hospital’s main concern is always to save lives. b. The medical team is completely separate from the transplant team. c. The transplant team, called the Organ Procurement Organization, or OPO, is not even notified until death is legally declared and the family has been contacted. 2. Others are under the impression that they are not able to donate. a. For example, have you ever thought that you were too young to donate your organs? Well, you are not. b. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, anyone can indicate their intent to donate organs with their parents’ consent if there under the age of 18. c. Organs from newborns as well as the elderly are always needed. (Internal transition) Even if you have doubts about your eligibility, it is worth it to make plans anyway. If you intend to be a donor, it is critical that you plan properly...
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...is safe to be transferred to another human being. Thesis statement: People should give blood because it is easy and though there might be a little pain involved it, while blood donation will help save so many lives and you can get great snacks. INTRODUCTION I. ATTENTION A. Attention Getter: Do you know that blood donation can help save the lives of up to three people? According to American Red Cross's blood statistics, if you began donating blood at age 17 and donated every 56 days until you reached 76, you would have donated 48 gallons of blood, potentially helping save more than 1000 lives. B. Common ground: Every two seconds, someone in the United State needs blood and more than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day. So while you may never worry about having enough blood to function, plenty of others are not as fortunate. C. Thesis: Blood donors report feeling a sense of great satisfaction after making their donation. Because help others in need just feels good. Transition: Now let us begin with the need for blood donation. BODY II. NEED A. The article "Donate" in the New York Times quoted as saying, "The stress on the blood supply is increasing. " 1. The demand for blood never lets up because according to "Give Blood" In Weekly Reader, every day thousands of people need donations to survive. 2. The blood must go through a series of time-consuming tests and then used before it perishes - whole blood for instance cannot be used after 42 days. 3. As a result...
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...Organ donation is the act of donating an organ by a person so that it can be transplanted by surgical procedure in the body of the recipient. Organ donation can benefit the recipient largely by improving health, quality and span of his life and even save him from death or other critical conditions like paralysis. Organ Donation Image Source: deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/300/0/0/organ_donation_ad_by_kirasepith-d31mxin.jpg Any person above the age of 18 is eligible to become a donor irrespective of the background. Even younger population under 18 can donate with permission from parent or guardian. The most surprising fact about organ donation is that some organs can be donated even when a person is alive. Most organs are however transplanted only after the donor is dead. By getting registered as a donor with some trust, one gets a donor card which makes him/her eligible for donation soon after his/her death. A single donor’s body can save up to 50 people. Age is not a constraint, which means that people aged 70 or 80 also can become successful donors. There is no dearth of people who need critical organs like kidney, lungs, liver or heart which has malfunctioned in their body due to critical disease or may be congenitally underdeveloped in their bodies. Not just organs but tissues can also be donated. Kidneys, lungs, pancreas, heart, small bowel and liver are chief organs that are donated for transplantation. Similarly the tissues of cornea, bone, skin, tendons, cartilage...
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...Organ Donation 1. ”I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by journalist Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about Paula MacKinnon, who is thought to be the first altruistic organ donor in Scotland. Paula’s mother, Katherine, suffered kidney failure in 2007, and Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother. However their blood groups weren’t compatible, so Paula decided to donate her kidney anyway, to whoever might need it. Neither of Paula’s parents was particularly fond of this idea, but Paula is the kind of person, who will help anyone in need. Paula’s husband, Colin, understands why she is donating her kidney. They are both BBC journalists and highly involved in charity. Colin worked on a programme about orphaned children in Ukraine in 2006, and Paula went there to help for three months. 2. The first text, “We must change the organ donation system” by Denis Campbell, describes (as the title implies) how Britain needs an update of their organ donation system. Three people die in Britain every day, due to shortage of organs, so his solution would be to adopt the “presumed content” system, just like many other European countries have done. The presumed content system allows surgeons to retrieve the organs of a dead citizen, unless said citizen has already refused permission for them to do so, or if their family members object. The second text, “The Ethics of Organ Donation by Living Donors” by Robert D. Truog, describes three categories...
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...The Importance of Organ Donation Each day approximately 6,300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are 83,513 people waiting for organs to be donated, yet each day 17 people die because they do not receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need. The sad truth is though, because of the lack of people willing to donate organs, many people will continue to wait for organs to save their lives. "Waiting lists of patients for organ transplants become longer as the need for transplantable organs increases" (Sheehy 1). Think back to how someone might feel when a close family member or friend dies. With out argument, the feeling one experiences when going through a time like that is one of the most painful experiences. The feeling when one gets when they know that they will never again see the person you loved so much, never hold them, touch them, experience their presence. It is a horrible feeling. What many do not realize is simply by donating organs, you can help someone else not have to deal with that pain. Organ donation is when someone who has died, has previously given permission for their organs to be taken from their body and transplanted into someone else's who because of some sort of medical condition, can not survive off of their own. At the time of death one's heart, intestine, kidneys, liver...
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...Whole Body Donation for Research and Education. There are several types of donations that can occur after death. Organ donation, this occurs primarily occurs for the purposes of life saving transplantation. Tissue and eye donation for the purposes of transplantation, which is primarily, considered life enhancing. In some cases it could be considered life saving but for the most part a person would survive without the transplantation. This includes things such as bone grafts for accident or cancer victims, or eye (cornea) donation. They would likely live without it but might otherwise be significantly impaired i.e. blind, or crippled. Organ eye and tissue donation for transplantation is one of the most highly regulated areas in healthcare. Multiple regulatory agencies at the federal level such as CMS (Center for Medicare Services), FDA (Federal Drug Association), UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) have oversight. These areas of donation are also regulated in many, but not all cases by state oversight. This regulation while adding cost and complication helps assure the safety of the public. The next area of donation is done for the purposes of education or research. This area is completely unregulated in most states. The bodies donated to unregulated programs can be used for a variety of purposes. Often they are used as cadavers for training medical students. The remains could also be used as anatomical models for a chiropractor’s office, be processed...
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...BLOOD DONATION SIDRA BIBI D/O FARZAND ALI MPHIL ( BIOCHEMISTRY) 2nd SEMESTER (MORNING) PMAS –UAAR Sidrabibi1126@yahoo.com Islam enjoins preserving human life and protecting it against all potential harm, affliction and hardship, and it insists on ensuring peace and security for human beings. In the Quran, Allah says, "To save one life is to save all humanity". Islamic law urges every Muslim to be in constant support of his community, and make it a legal requirement in many cases. According to a Hadith (saying by the Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him)),"He who relieves a believer of one form of distress, in this life shall be relieved by God of a greater distress on the Day of Resurrection" and "God will help any servant of His, as long as he continues to help his brother". "A Muslim is a brother to every Muslim, he neither lets him down, nor does him injustice, nor gives him away".Therefore, if giving blood to a patient is necessary for his survival, then, according to Islam, it becomes mandatory to donate blood`, as a case of implementing a basic Islamic principle which makes it imperative to preserve human life. Two important main Islamic rules are also applicable here, namely: "Harm must be eliminated" & "Necessity overrules constraints". Further more it is in agreement with the Islamic principles of social justice.The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) says, "Cupping is a most useful type of medical treatment". He also says...
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...Topic: Organ donation Thesis Statement: Becoming an organ donor after death is not only an important decision for yourself, but it is also an important decision for the life that you may have the power to save. Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to consider becoming organ donors after death Introduction: Ladies and gentlemen, today I am here to share with you my views on organ donation, in the hope that you will take them on board and give someone the ultimate gift after you have left this earth the gift of life. Almost everyone would want to be able to say “I have saved a life.” But by becoming an organ donor, you can be able to say “I will save a life.” 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. Unfortunately, the number of patients waiting for organs far exceeds the number of people who have registered to become organ donors. Patients are forced to wait months, even years for a match, and far too many die before they are provided with a suitable organ. There are many stigmas related to organ donation, but most of them are relatively false, and in order to be well informed, you must know what organ donation is, how it works as well as how you can become an organ donor and what organs or tissues you can donate. Becoming an organ donor after death is not only an important decision for yourself, but it is also an important decision for the life that you...
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