Everyone needs to read and reread this article!
Organ failure can be caused by a wide range of issues, including; physical trauma, medical conditions and drug abuse among other things. Unfortunately, there are very few people who are willing to get involved in organ donation. In the United States, it is estimated that five new names are added to the national transplant list every hour. While the demand for organ donation may be high, the supply is limited. Currently there are over 123,000 people who are waiting for an organ donation, of which 21 die every day for lack of an organ transplant. This translates to around 6,500 deaths every year due to shortage of organ donations. This can be blamed on misinformation and myths. The following are some of the most popular myths as well as the truth about organ donation and transplant.
Myth 1: Physical defects, age and illness can prevent me from donating an organ.
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I Am Not Sick Boy 
This is a great article. Thank you for sharing it. I wasn’t an organ donor, and then about 4 years ago, one of my ESL students was training to be a medical assistant. He talked to me about it and that even though I’m on a blood thinner I could be on the list. He said even having skin to donate is important, and that people have many organs that can be donated, e enjoy if they’re not in perfect health. So now I am.
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That is so good of you. As an RN at a county hospital I had a patient who was in the hospital for a long time and we had to go down and pick up the skin for his grafts everyday. Believe me, that skin saved his life.
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I loved that one of my students taught me about it.
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We keep on learning, right? That is sweet that it was a student.
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