Shayla Nham

Huma 1100

Catten

08 January 2020

My Manifesto

A value I believe in is that human life is valuable and that we should help others

to have a better life also. I believe this because of my dad. My dad was diagnosed with

Chronic Kidney Disease which is when your kidneys fail so it is not able to filter waste

and excess fluids from the blood. Since both his kidneys were failing he was placed on

the waiting list in 2015. While he was waiting for a new kidney, he would go to dialysis.

Dialysis does the kidney jobs from a machine. Luckily we found someone who would

donate to my dad specifically in 2018. Since then my dad has been much healthier and

happier.

An issue that we have is that not many people are willing to donate their organs

or be a donor. The waiting list has about 100,000 patients waiting to get their desired

organ to live a better life. An average of 22 patients who dies each day is on the waiting

list due to getting sicker. About 9,000 patients will be removed each year. We need

more people to be willing to help these patients on the waiting list because these

patients want to have a better life. They have a desire to live and be healthier.

What I did for my civic engagement project is that I made a website and

PowerPoint. I used this website and PowerPoint in ENGL 1010 and I thought it would fit

in my manifesto too. I made this project to bring more awareness to the problem. Not

many people know how long the waiting list is and how to help people right now. On my
website, it shares the issue and ways to help. The feedback I got on it was that it was

very informational and helpful. Also that it was easy to read so that it was easy to grasp

the concept. There has been debate about if we offered money for organs more people

would donate. And I wanted to research if that was the right thing to do. But after all my

research I believe that people should not be treated like vending machines and see the

value in helping others for a good deed.

This ties in with our unit of The Value of Human Life. That is because as I was

reading they were trying to figure out the price of human life. And I feel like that ties in

because if we offer compensation for organs it would be hard to figure out how much a

human’s organ costs. How could we put a price tag on a human? Would that make you

feel like a vending machine? Just holding organs and expecting money in exchange for

them. Also that many people value their life, and that the people on the waiting list are

wanting to live longer because life is so valuable. So we should help out so that more

people can live a valuable life.