Organ Dontation

Thousands of people die each year in the United States alone waiting for organ transplants. In 2001 the United States Department of Health and Human Services reported that 56,716 of people were waiting for hearts, lungs, pancreases, and kidneys. By 2002 this number had increased to 64,423 people waiting). The list of those people in need of transplants increases almost twenty percent every year while the number of donors increases only ten percent during the same time This clearly illustrates the growing need for more organ donors. The difficult and most important question of your life is asked every 4 years when you renew your license.

There is one clear fact that every person in this world can agree on: at some point in our lives, we are all going to face the reality of death. Death is imminent to each and every one of us, and the prospect of death is usually unknown and very tragic to most people. It is the unknown that can instill the fear of dying in a person or a family. Tragic accidents and terminal diseases are often the source of many deaths, and invariably in those instances we are unable to control the end result, which is death. However, in the course of life and death, there are life- threatening situations that we do have the ability to control. It becomes a choice by a person or a family to offer the greatest gift, life to another person. Life is spared for many through organ donation. Organ donation is truly a gift of life that saves hundreds of lives each day, however, even greater than the number of lives saved is the number of deaths that occur each day as people on a organ transplant waiting list continue to wait. Organ donation is a precious gift t...