Organ Donation Today, more than 75,000 men, women, and children are waiting for an organ transplant and the list is growing longer. Currently 17 patients die each day waiting for an organ transplant. Without an increase in donation, that number is likely to escalate. If you decide to donate your organs or tissues, you could help as many as 50 people and only an estimated 40 percent of suitable individuals donate their organs following death On March 24, 2001 The UNOS …
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…criteria for performing assisted suicide, and from accounts even committed murder. Having people like him on the side of both assisted suicide and organ harvesting can only hurt us in the long run. Resourses: (1)http://www.unos.org/Newsroom/critdata_main.htm#npwl (2)http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/orgdonor/98conf/confrpt.html#Panel 5: Expanded Donor (3) http://stills.nap.edu/html/organ/ (4)http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20010117organshealth3.asp (5) readeers digest 4/99 Who is Jack Kevorkian, Really?