Some of us are familiar with organ
donation while others have never heard of it. Organ donation relates to the
removal of our body parts (which remain good for some hours after our death)
immediately after our death on the basis of our prior consent, so as to provide
a vital organ to another. Can there be greater humanitarian love - where you
literally give up your body to benefit a person you never even met?
A
Wealth That Grows When You Give it Away
Just as the holy scriptures advice us to
have a more philosophical view of life by acknowledging that we can't take our
wealth with us when we die, our organs too are no good for us the moment we
die. But for another human being, who is struggling to live life because of a
faulty organ, our organ means the difference between life and death. For the
person who receives our organ, it means a second chance at life. Imagine, after
our death, we have the ability to give a bigger gift than we ever could when we
were alive.
Recycling
Life
The gift of an organ enables a blind
person to see, the gift of a tissue enables a patient of Parkinson's to recover
their mobility, and so on. The organs which can be donated after one's death
are the heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, pancreas, besides tissues
like the cornea, heart valves, skin and bones.
The
Stats
In India, each year, for lack of vital
organs: Five lakh people die; two lakh people die of liver disease; 50,000
people die of heart disease; 150,000 people await a kidney transplant but only
5,000 get one; one crore people suffer from corneal blindness and await
transplant. The bigger the tree of need, the more each leaf counts...
Donations
By The Dead And The Living
Besides organ donations after death,
many living people donate an organ, like a kidney, to help save another. The
organs or tissues are removed in a surgical procedure (following a medical
determination on its suitability for transplantation) known as
allotransplantation.
We All
Have Something To Give
Even if we are ill, or old, we all have
the gift of life to give another. Name it the ultimate spiritual gift. The
donor group, of course, does not include those with active cancer, active HIV,
active infection or intravenous drug use.
by Radhika Ravi Ranjan
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