organ donation

             I would like to introduce you to a special family. The California family went on a vacation to southern Italy where a band of highway robbers shot and killed the little boy. The devastated family stunned Italy when they decided to donate his organs to help others. The precious donation by this family was transplanted into seven people, five of which are still alive today. This donation was the starting point for Italy's organ donation program. Italy has now climbed to the European average of transplantations.
             Of all the resources in the United States, organs are lacking in number. When asked many people say they will donate their organs. In reality only ½ or less will donate organs. Some people are either afraid to donate or think that someone else will and they don't have to.
             According to the National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative, 62,000 patients await transplants nationwide. Out of all these people, only 1/3 or less receive the transplants. That is about 22,000 people. Twelve of which die each day waiting for organs that may never come. Since there are so few donors, more and more people die each year.
             Organ transplantation has been a medical procedure for only the past thirty years. Since then the number of transplants has risen from 12,618 in 1988 to 20,961 in 1998. This may seen like a lot of people, but in reality this is just a few of the people waiting for transplants. Transplantation patients range from non-urgent to extremely urgent. The extremely urgent patients are those that need organs or they will die in a very short time.
             In most states, the law is written that if a person dies, his/her organs are donated first to the people of that state. Then if there is no match patients who are extremely urgent are given the organ. The reason this occurs is that organs can't stay alive for very long amounts of time. Years ago, surgeons had to operate immediately so the organ w
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