Organ donation should be mandatory because it makes sense!

Imagine you were born with a congenital heart defect that limited the quality and duration of your life. This condition is completely out of your control. You never did drugs, ate junk food, smoked cigarettes, or even engaged yourself in risky situations. Now picture your circumstances: your 22 years old, exhaustion drastically limits your daily activities, and if you don’t get a new heart within the next year you will die. You’ve been waiting for a transplant for approximately 6 months, and anxiously worry because you know that time is like an hourglass (it will eventually run out). As the time closes in, you get weaker and sicker by the day. You have so many aspirations you will pursue once you get the call, but it never comes. The list was too long and the donors too few.
Organ donation is a serious matter. Sadly, every day people who have been waiting on the transplant list die. The reality is there are just not enough donors. For some, the thought of organ donation is too personal. The process of surgeons cutting out organs and butchering the body is too much. Another common misconception is that while you are dying and the ambulance is in route to the hospital, if the paramedics see that you’re an organ donor, they will drive around pointlessly until you die. Believe it or not, some people actually do think this happens. Regardless, this is simply not true. A lack of awareness concerning organ donation creates a lack of matches for people in need of transplants.
In order to bridge the gap between the lack of donors and the list of people who die waiting for organs, I believe organ donation should be mandatory. Although this would create a lot of conflict, especially in a country where freedoms are plentiful, it would solve the problem and save lives desperately in need. Think of it this way, if you could solve world hunger by pushing a button that would send all of the food you throw away to a 3rd world country, would you do it? I know the idea seems far fetch, but I’m sure the majority of people would do it! In the least, it would save you money on trash bags and electric bills! So, why waste food that is still consumable? My point is, why waste organs that are still viable? Just like food, organs that are left in a dead body go to waste. Let’s face it, after we die we decompose and every part of our body is rendered useless. Since organs are so much more valuable than food, at least to Americans, what is the purpose in burying or burning them? If I were to ever lose a loved one, even a child, knowing that a part of them lives on through someone else would be easier to deal with than knowing that no part of them did.
These are only a few of the reasons why organ donation should be mandatory. If I were to list all of them, the list would be as long as the transplant list, or perhaps even longer. The bottom line is, organs and life should not be wasted. I believe that one day, there will be a law to enforce “recycling” organs. In the meantime, let’s use our brains, our voice, and our hearts to accept and promote life.