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essay on organ donation

Answer 1

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.

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.



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Similarly the tissues of cornea, bone, skin, tendons, cartilage and heart valves can be used for donation. Also when a donor decides to opt for organ donation after his death, he can decide to donate the whole body or specific body parts as desired. Most countries have an established organ donation association which is approved and legalized to collect the organs donated by people in that country. These organs may be preserved or immediately used for transplantation in any person’s body needing them.

Until the time of recovery, it is important that blood and oxygen flow through the person’s body so that it is suitable for transplantation.

Organ donation is also possible after a brain death but all possible tests must be conducted to confirm it so that donation is possible. Even a deceased person who is not on the donor registry of the country can donate with suitable authorization from spouse or close relative. It is the donation professionals who decide which organs from the deceased person’s body can be transplanted.

For people who suffer from serious ailments threatening lives, organ donation is often the only possibility to get a second chance of survival. The number of people waiting for organ donation across the world is manifolds the number of organ donations that actually happen. Thus not every one in this world who needs transplantation is fortunate enough to receive an appropriate donor.

Tissue can be donated within 24 hours of death. Organ donation can save many lives and thus we must step forward for this noble job. Whether you considered doing charity and other noble deeds in lifetime or not, but death is definitely an opportunity when you can contribute to humanity by the act of organ donation.

Answer 2

Organ donation is a topic which contains many conflicting views. To some of the public population organ 
donation is a genuine way of saving the life of another, to some it is mistrusted and to others it is not fully 
understood. There are some techniques that can be used to increase donation. Of these techniques the most 
crucial would be being educated. If the life threatening and the critical shortage of organs was fully 
understood by the public, organ donation would more likely be on the rise. An effort is needed throughout 
the world to make people aware of the benefits this process contains.

Advances in medical technology have made it possible to save someone’s
life by a process of organ donation. However, the scarcity of available organs
is bringing the beneficial process down. By becoming an organ donor, people 
engage in improving someone else’s life at no cost. Although the question of
religious or moral cost comes into effect, virtually there is no physical cost
of becoming an organ donor. Organ donation should be seen as the "gift of life"
but there are not enough logical explanations to explain this phrase. Whether 
people are donors, non-donors or recipients, all the public should be aware that 
organ donation is for the common welfare.

Organ Donation-Why People Become Donors 
The main reason an individual becomes an organ donor is to give someone the "gift of life." By 
giving someone this privilege a person feels they are adding to another
person’s life. Some reasons people give this gift is simply from having a kind heart, they may find the 
other person’s use for the organ more important than their need or maybe just because they just have no use 
for the organ.