In five pages a convincing argument to persuade a person to become an organ donor is considered through various appeals. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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sense of the continuation of life? Do you site those people who will die without a transplant? Or do you just claim it is "the right thing"
to do? All of these appeals will be examined in this discussion. Statistics According to the United States Department of Health and Social Services, fifteen people a day die
due to a lack of available transplants. As of December 18, 2000, organ transplant programs exist in 261 medical institutions throughout the country. According to information from national
records dated June 16, 2001, almost 77,000 individuals were waiting for notification of possible transplant availability. Ethics No one can argue that the demand has far exceeded the supply.
The question then becomes what can ethically be done to address a problem that is increasing by about twenty percent per year according to government figures. Altruistic:
Argument is made that the altruistic system has not failed, so much as it has not been promoted properly. This same system has been in place for almost thirty
years with little if any change in spite of the fact, that the number of transplants possible has increased. This system is based on a unique moral decision rendered
by the patient, or in the case of trauma, by the patients family. One might wonder, if it is our built in fear of death, or superstition of talking about
it, that makes the question of organ donation one that lingers below the emotional surface of our lives. Yet that hardly fits in place, as most states will ask
if you want "organ donor" listed on your drivers license. Is the response, after sitting in motor vehicles, for an hour or two waiting for a chance, to renew