The numbers above really say it all. There is a deficit of available organs out there for people who are in dire need of transplants. This is hardly news to anyone, but it’s important to remember that there are numerous organizations whose only goal is to bring awareness to this problem and to facilitate successful transplants. Among them, is the United Network of Organ Sharing.
UNOS, a private non-profit organization, administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, which they operate under the federal government. The OPTN was originally a piece of legislation, which was introduced in 1984 by Al Gore. This system made organ donation national and helped to create allocation criteria based on medical factors only. Meaning, before this legislation was introduced, there was no system to determine who should be where on “the list”.
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This list could be cut in half if all of the senior recipients would take their name off the list. More than half of all organs go to people over sixty. The number one donor will be a white 24 year old male who is uninsured. How can this be? Dont insured people have brain injury. The Donor Store has to meet a quota to stay in operation. How can you put a quota on organs? What happens when you do not meet the quota, How do you create the organs? The poor stupid donor who is trying to help humanity, has no idea what he has signed up for. To die without anesthesia at the hands of those sworn to do no harm to him. Cutting out the organs of a live person is horrific, this is the darkest period of our history.
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