Reflection by Anushka on Guest Lecture - Organ Donation

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Hi! My name is Anushka and today I will be reflecting on the ongoing service activity that is integrated with it Science - organ donation. We have this service going on for quite a long time. It started somewhere around October when we were learning about organ donation in Science class. We had two lessons in which we had a very deep discussion on organ donation in class, while we watched 1-2 videos on it. About a week later, we had a very fruitful debate in our class on whether or whether not organ donation should be compulsory. Many notable points were raised, and it was very interesting. In my opinion, organ donation should be highly encouraged, but not compulsory. There is a line, and making it compulsory would be crossing that line. In my opinion, every person has their body, and I believe every person should have full rights to their own body, before and after death. This is why I strongly disagreed the above statement. 
Moving on from the debate, the next service activity took place quite recently. Last Saturday, January 6th, an NGO was known as Muskaan Group came to give us an engaging lecture on organ donation. They are a group who go around the city, raising awareness on organ donation. To be honest, I didn't understand many parts of the lecture as the guest lecturer spoke in Hindi. Since my Hindi isn't very fluent, I was not able to understand it completely, but I understood the main points. He discussed the two different types of organ donation - live and cadaver donation. Organ donation after death is divided into two subparts, physical death, and brain death. Member of the NGO also discussed each organ that can be donated, and how it is donated. Towards the end of the lecture, he invited a guest forward, a recipient of a donated kidney. She talked about how that donated kidney changed her life. She lived for six years on an extremely painful treatment known as dialysis, as both of her kidneys had failed, and needed some way to filter the blood in her body. She knew she can't live on dialysis forever and was going to end sooner or later. She finally received a message that someone had donated a kidney to her, and from that moment onwards her life changed. I found this a very touching and miraculous event. In conclusion, I found this service activity very enthralling. Thank you.


-Anushka Agrawal



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