HEPC INFO: ORGAN DONORS

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Under the current system, there aren't enough donor organs for everyone on the transplant waiting list. The sad truth is, at least 15 people die "waiting" everyday. According to the government (http://www.organdonor.gov/ ): "EACH DAY about 60 people receive an organ transplant, but another 15 people on the waiting list die because not enough organs are available." How great is the need for organs to harvest? According to Dr. Phil Berry, a liver transplant recipient himself, "6,000 people would say it's very great because they died last year on that list waiting for an organ that never came." "Every year, we're falling farther and farther behind, because the transplant waiting list is growing by 15 percent per year, but the number of donors has increased by just 5 percent per year." The problem is that not enough people are filling out organ donor cards. There ARE enough organs. There are MORE than enough organs. Unfortunately they just don't get donated. (Our cemeteries are full of them.) If everyone who died (accidents, car wrecks, etc.) was an organ donor----there would be no such thing as a "waiting list". Can you imagine? No waiting and waiting and waiting, while your condition gets worse. So, what can we do about it? Let's do what other countries (Belgium, France, Austria, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Singapore) are already doing! It's called "Presumed Consent". Here's the definition of "Presumed Consent" according to UNOS: "Public policy based on presumed consent would offer every adult the opportunity to express and have recorded by publicly accountable authorities his or her refusal to be a donor of solid organs and tissues. A clinically and legally indicated candidate for cadaver organ and tissue recovery is presumed to have consented to organ and tissue recovery if he or she had not registered a refusal." In other words, everyone would be a donor, unless they fill out a card saying that they don't want to be one. You can read more about this at: http://www.presumedconsent.org/ and http://www.unos.org/resources/bioethics_whitepapers_presumedconsent.htm Let's do what we can to save some lives! You can do your part by spending a few minutes writing to these email addresses, and telling them that you are in favor of "Presumed Consent": send an email to Health and Human Services: [email protected] send an email to Div. of Transplantation: [email protected] send an email to Mary Ganikos, Chief, Education branch, Div. of Transplantation: [email protected] Tell them that you would like to see "Presumed Consent" become UNOS policy. Write to everyone you can think of about this idea. The more noise we can make about this, the sooner things will change. Do it today. Please do what you can to help..forward this to everyone in your address book and send those emails! ******************************************************************** This is a product that I recently started using. I have found that I feel better over all, & my energy level is up... up! ***************************************************** Do You Have Hepatitis B or C? To Find Out More: Chanca Piedra http://www.naturesresponse.com/herbs/chanca.html Special Pricing For Hep C Info List Subscribers Nature's Response http://naturesresponse.net ********************************************************************