A 3 page persuasive paper providing three arguments in favor of requiring all young adults to sign a statement indicating their willingness to consider donating their organs. Arguments include reinforcing the concept of exchange; making the selection process more objective; and diffusing arguments in favor of human cloning. No sources listed.
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issue of organ donation has been generated in overwhelming levels with the tragedy of Jessica Santillan, the Mexican teen whose death sentence was virtually assured when she received organs mismatched
to her own body chemistry. Jessicas case highlighted the additional difficulty of locating organs for children: not only must they match in blood type, they also must match
in size. That two sets of heart-lung "packages" were found in a size appropriate for Jessica is nothing short of miraculous; what overshadows that fact is that on her
death, her family refused to allow Duke Medical Center to take any of Jessicas own organs for transplant for others. Jessica, of course, was unable to make her own
wishes known. Proposal Jessicas case is unusual in most respects, beginning with the breakdown of basic safeguards designed to prevent transplant of organs
incompatible with the recipients own system. It is greatly unusual in that Jessica received any donated organs at all, however. At any given time, there are more than
60,000 people waiting for an organ transplant; 10 of those die daily. The current proposal is that all young adults be required to
sign a statement indicating their willingness to donate their organs upon their death. This statement would not be a binding contract, nor would it constitute an overt agreement to
donate. The benefit to the individual making the statement is that they indicate their willingness to take part in a humanitarian act; another is that those willing to donate
also would be placed in priority standing if they ever come to the place that they need a transplanted organ themselves. A positive