ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION

ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION

We hear calls every now and again of organizations asking people to sign up for organ donations or tissue donations. We also hear about disturbing stories of people who are confronted with death, waiting for an organ to become available for them. Often waiting lists are disparagingly long. Other times it seems there is just no perfect match, especially in the case of bone marrow donors.

It always hits me very hard that if every person who is in good health could be on the bone marrow registry, the probability of getting a match will increase exponentially.

But why are people not registering to become organ and tissue donors?

Organ and tissue donation: why people do not donate organs/tissues

The two common reasons why people do not want to become organ donors or tissue donors are lack of education/awareness and fear. Fear obviously stems from the subject being/sounding very foreign and sometimes incomprehensible to ordinary people. Issues around organs needing to be harvested while there is still some life in them often raises questions about whether “Will I be given every chance of making a miraculous come back to life” or “What if I would not have died had I been given a chance even after my drain had died?”

Human beings are inherently good. What most just really need to be certain of is that they would be dead in all respects before their organs are taken. Terms like having to be declared "legally dead” can be daunting for people. Most of us would still wonder if a person had really died who was declared technically dead. So really, fear and not enough conviction stand between the success of present day medical revolution and its confines, be they real or imagined.

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