Donor card - persuasive essay

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Donor card - essay

“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, / Peace after war, death after life, / does greatly please.” This is a phrase by Edmund Spenser, a 16th-century poet. He asserted death to be a “pleasant” thing. But it is not the case for many of us. Death is not so easy. In fact, we are afraid of its pain. In fact, we are afraid of its loneliness. In fact, we are afraid of its irrevocability. And it is much more scary if we feel all those agonies even “after” our death. I am not going to write about horror movies however, but a true story of brain death. And through the arguments, I want you to realize the significance of the decision: whether to own a donor card.

 Donor card… I guess most of you already know about it. Thanks to that card, you can save other people without any special skills by providing your organs. That is wonderful. When you watch a moving story of transplantation on a TV program, you may have a feeling that you, too, want to be like that “warm-hearted” donor. Especially, in case of heart transplantation, the donor must be a “brain-dead” person, who can no longer maintain life but still has a beating heart. If you are wanted and cannot live anyway, you may think you have a clear resolution.

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 However, remember that you always have to pay something if you try to save others. So let me remind you that the “warm-hearted” donor is a “warm-blood-running” dead body. Into a soft and warm body, a knife cuts in, and organs are taken out. If that is all, it may not be a problem. But, the body moves, sheds tears, and even has a possibility of feeling pain. That is the reality. It may be only a spinal reflex, but may not be, too. And it may be only a possibility, but may not be, too. The diagnosis by doctors ...

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