should all be talking about. thaert s right. not enough people do. i can t imagine. you re a mother, a father. you lose a child. potentially one of the lowest points in your life. but you want to give life at the same time. i imagine some parents perhaps like in the situation they find solace. exactly. i ve talked to family whoz have donated their children s organs to other children. they say it really wasn t a tough decision. it was not. it was not. they said they wanted their child to help someone else. their child was dead. there was nothing that could change that, nothing could bring their child back. they were happy to know their child s liver or kidney or pancreas or whatever was able to help out another child. you know, you can fill out or if it s a license or an organ donor card, a lot of adults can fill those out, yes, i wish to donate my organs. obviously a child kblt do that. can a parent do that on behalf of a child? a doctor or nurse would really want to talk
arrest. a second specially-equipped unit, this one, will be on standby to whisk away potential organ donors. there could be an additional 22,000 organ donors a year in the united states if, you know, if this process was really implemented nationally. reporter: the numbers could jump because a donor would not have to die in a hospital. that s the rule now, but not many people know it. starting only with kidneys, new york s new pilot program wants to see whether donors could come from the estimated 450 people who die of cardiac arrest each year outside of manhattan hospitals. knowing how much scrutiny there will be, organizers have a litany of requirements including these. first, the deceased must be between the ages of 18 and 60. cannot have cancer or any infectious disease. cannot be a victim of crime, and previously must have signed an organ donor card. on top of that, the family must agree twice, once before the
so get informed. our failure is when the hardest not able to pump enough blood through the body and in severe cases only a heart transplantation can save the patient and that doesn t only affect old people. kept from that name so i ve had an organ donor card since i was sixteen years old. and. had him and i never dreamed that one day i d need an organ myself. ellen was in her early thirty s when she first discovered she had a heart problem but with the aid of medication she was able to lead a normal life. she got married. and the couple adopted two children. tied with ted emotionally things gradually got worse and worse it was becoming