transplants,blood

Learning Objectives

To define the term ‘Transplant Surgery’

To explore the UK law

To explain De Bono’s six thinking hats

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Use the clip below to help you find out what other people think about organ transplantation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_ 4560000/newsid_4563300/4563325.stm

Words with ‘trans’ in them

Words with ‘plant’ in them

Latin-

‘Trans’ ACROSS BEYOND THROUGH

Latin – ‘Plantare’ TO PLANT

Transfer

Plantae

Transformer

Plantation

Transit

Implant

Translate

Planted

Transparent

Plantar

Transpose

Planter

Write out your pathway in full sentences.

Are you a registered organ donor?

Yes

No Would you consider registering yourself?

Why?

Yes What did you register to donate?

No

Why?

Why? What wouldn’t you register to donate?

A) I’d register everything

B) Kidneys

C) Heart

D) Lungs

E) Liver

F) Pancreas

G) Corneas

1. Which parts of your body do you think you can transplant when you are alive?

2. The current law is that you cannot pay of organs in this country. Is this fair and right?

3. There is a shortage of donors.

A new opt out law in August 2007 said that…”organs can be transplanted from dead people now without the permission of the relatives” Do you agree?

A debt-ridden salesman who tried to sell one of his own kidneys over the internet has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence.

Daniel Tuck, from Oldbury, West Midlands, is the first person to be successfully prosecuted under a new law preventing the sale of body parts.

The 26-year-old tried to sell his kidney for ÂŁ24,000 on a chatroom used by kidney disease sufferers.

The judge suspended his sentence for two years and ordered him to pay ÂŁ250.

I want to sell my kidney - this is 100% genuine. I am a white male of completely perfect health.

Daniel Tuck's advert

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Why do you think it is an offence to give or receive a reward for the supply or offer of human material for transplantation?

Why would most religious people agree with the law in the UK? Do you think the punishment fits the crime?

Do you have any rights over your own dead body?

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‘Love one another’

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(John 13:34)

Following the example of Jesus, who always treated people with love

‘Harming a believer after his death is similar to harming him in his life’ (Hadith)

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‘If anyone has saved a life it would be as if he has saved the life of the whole people’ (Qur’an)

Christianity

Islam

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1. What is organ donation?

2. What parts of your body can you donate whilst you are alive?

3. What parts of your body can you donate when dead?

4. A new law says “Relatives who are dead have to

donate organs to people in their family.”

Do you think this new law is a good idea? Give reasons for your answer.

5. Give 2 reasons why religious people think it is a good idea to give organs to other people. CLUE: Belief in Life after death.