Studies by Wolfe, Roys and Merion (2010) showed that between 2006 and 2007, kidney recipient survival after one year was up to ninety percent. Organ donation is essential in the medical field. There are not enough medicines in the world to help those in need of organ transplants, and organs cannot be produced in a laboratory. Doctors, surgeons and nurses cannot save lives without the help of organ donors. Without living and dead donors, there would be so many deaths that the medical field would be a failure. “Transplantation is one of the most extraordinary success stories in the history of medicine” (“Why be a donor?” Donatelife.net.). Organ donation: teaching