Organ donation has been a big topic in recent weeks as the German government wraps up legislation designed to encourage people to donate. In principle, many Germans say organ donation is a good idea, but they often fail to take the necessary steps required to follow through.
A young man dies in an accident. Though he is brain-dead, many of his organs are useful and could be transplanted to desperate patients waiting on long lists for an organ donation. Will this man's organs be harvested and sent to one of these critically ill people?
In Germany, the answer is probably no. While Germans are in favor of donating their organs in principle, few have made the move to do so, frustrating government officials who are trying to get the organ donation figures up.
Ask an average German if he or she would donate, and some 70 percent say "yes," organ donor experts say.
But only 25 percent actually have the required donor identification papers that would allow a physician to take a needed organ in the event of a documented brain death, said Marita Völker-Albert, spokesperson for the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA), a government agency that is promoting organ donation.
The subject has come up again -- in full force -- in the debate surrounding a new law aimed at increasing awareness and making it easier to become a donor. The bill has already passed both houses of of the German parliament, and is expected to be wrapped up on July 1 and to take effect four months later.
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