Death is the end. Once you die you can't do anything to change the world. I'm here to tell you that those opening sentences are false. Once you die there is something you can do to change the world. Organ donation can impact so many lives just from parts of your body once you are no longer living, creating a lasting impact. Organ donation is important because it doesn't just affect the person receiving the organ. Organ donation affects the family of the person who donated the organ, the recipient and the family of the recipient. Recipients are placed on a list just as they are told they need a new organ. In 2012 alone, 124,681 people were on the waiting list for an organ. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2013). When a person needs a new organ, it means that they are very ill, therefore they are not able to live a normal life as they could have done, creating a new level of stress in the family. Dimitri Linde explains what people on the transplant list experience: “Transplant candidates typically undergo dialysis sessions three times a week, lasting four or five hours each. Sitting weakens patients to the point that 71% stop working after starting treatment. Treatments are also depressing: those on dialysis suffer from clinical depression at a rate four times higher than the national average” (I Gave Away a Kidney; You sell one?). Waiting lists create little hope for those on them, but, for a family of descendants, they can provide hope. When a loved one dies, it is a very dark time. Unless they knew that a part of their loved one was alive and brightening someone else's life. That's what organ donation can do for a grieving family: it can bring hope. For example, Taylor Storch was a loving… middle of paper… this may be due to the patient not taking the correct mandatory health precautions or the body rejecting the transplant. Jonathoan Finger was a transplant patient, with his first transplanted kidney failing. “The fact that he had not taken care of the kidney he had received less than two years earlier caused him emotional pain” (Storch 44). Jonathan has learned very well what it takes to take care of his body, especially after organ donation. Because not everyone is given a second chance and it could mean your life. Without organ donation there wouldn't be so many people in the world making a small difference every day because they wouldn't be there anymore. Organ donation positively impacts so many lives with a high success rate. Knowing the facts about organ donation can help make the decision-making process about whether a person wants to donate their organs easier...