VOCABULARY :

Glossary (donatelife.net)

Donor Card (myjewishlearning.com)

Donor card (postgradmed.com)

Donor card (diyplanner.com)

PICTURES :

• Organ donor dolls
  "These dolls are all heart - and lungs, eyeballs and brains.
  David Foox, an artist based in Denver, Colorado, has created a collection of organ donor dolls."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  
  
  

FACTS :

• ORGAN TRAFFICKING

  China: Teenager 'sells kidney for iPad 2'
  "The 17-year-old... told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet...
  It all started when the high school student saw an online advert offering money to organ donors.
  Illegal agents organised a trip to the hospital and paid him $3,392 (£2,077) after the operation.
  With the cash the student bought an iPad 2, as well as a laptop...
  In 2007, Chinese authorities banned organ trafficking and have introduced a voluntary donor scheme to try to combat the trade."
  (BBC)
  
  More information here (siliconrepublic.com) and there. (telegraph.co.uk)
  
  

   

• Jobless Spaniards sell kidneys to transplant tourists
  "A MACABRE traffic associated with poor countries in Asia and Latin America has sprung up for the first time in western Europe as the credit crunch reduces Spaniards to selling organs to “transplant tourists”..."
  (timesonline.co.uk)
  
  

• Be an organ / tissue donor - What kids want to know (lifegoeson.com)

• Explore the Interactive Body to learn about the organs and tissues that can be transplanted. (organtransplants.org)
  
  

• Organ donation (Wikipedia)
  1 Organs and tissues which can be donated
  2 Recipient protection
  3 Legislation regarding organ donation
  4 Bioethical issues in organ donation 4.1 Deontological issues 4.2 Teleological issues
  5 Political issues
  6 Organ shortfall 6.1 Recent controversy in Organ Transplantation Case in California...

• Organ Donation (nlm.nih.gov)

• 25 Facts About Organ Donation and Transplantation (kidney.org)

• Organ Facts (transplantliving.org)
  "Here you can find valuable information about organs available for transplant, how each of these organs work and common diseases of each."
  + U.S. Waiting List Candidates By Organ
  
  

• Organ Profiles - interactive (organdonor.gov)
  
  

• HUMAN ORGAN TRAFFICKING RESOURCES (vachss.com)

• Organ theft (Wikipedia)

DEBATES :

• Should organ donation registers move from an opt-in to an opt-out system? (wiki.idebate.org)
  Pros and Cons

• Does my religion approve of organ donation? (ctdn.org)
  

• Statements from Various Religions (redcross.org)
  AMISH, BAPTIST, BUDDHISM, ROMAN CATHOLIC, CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH OF CHRIST, CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS, EPISCOPAL, GREEK ORTHODOX, GYPSIES, HINDUISM, INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL, ISLAM, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS, JUDAISM, LUTHERAN, MORMON, PRESBYTERIAN, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, UNITED METHODIST

• Ethics of Organ Transplants (about.com)

• Xenotransplants : Ethics of Transplanting Organs from Animals to Humans (about.com)

• Selling Organs - Is it ethical to let organs be sold on the open market? (about.com)

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES :

• Organ Donor Quiz -Cloze (Fill in the blank)
  (palc.sd40.bc.ca)

ACTIVITIES TO PRINT :

• Organ donation : Quiz (careers.findlaw.com)

LESSON PLANS :

• People fear personality transplants - a lesson plan
  WARM-UPS : Organ donors / Personality
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

GAMES TO PRINT :

• Organ Donor Coloring Sheet - 2 pages (cyberdriveillinois.com)
  
  

• Organ donation - Crossword (organdonor.gov)

POSTERS :

- UPDATED

STORIES :

• A decision to share - An Illustrated Story (organdonor.gov)
  
  

CARTOONS :

VIDEOS :

• I'm here - a film by Spike Jonze - A robot love story
  - with French subtitles
  (imheremovie.com)

  

• Organ Donation ad (YouTube)

• Organ Donation - Videos (YouTube)

CINEMA :

• INHALE :
  
  

  • Inhale
    "A Santa Fe district attorney and his wife take desperate measures to find a lung donor for their dying daughter in this topical thriller starring Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger." 
    (allmovie.com)
    
    
    
  • Inhale trailer - HD
    "A frantic search leads the couple to a doctor in Mexico, who after promising a cure, is revealed to have connections runing deep into a criminal underworld where his patients aren't donors - they're victims."
    (YouTube)

    
    
    
    

• NEVER LET ME GO :
  
  
  • Never Let Me Go 
    "is a 2010 British dystopian drama film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name.
    The film was directed by Mark Romanek from a screenplay written by Alex Garland...
    Never Let Me Go centers on Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy, played respectively by Mulligan, Knightley, and Garfield, who become entangled in a love triangle and are scientific specimens, created in a laboratory and raised in order to provide their organs to severely ill patients.  "
    (Wikipedia)

  
  
  
  

  • «Never Let Me Go»: L'amour au défi de la science (20minutes.fr)
    
    
    
  • Never let me go - the trailer (YouTube)

  

SONGS :

• Organ Donor by Agoraphobic Nosebleed (lyrics007.com)
  "when my grandfather was dying
  he rejected a heart tranplant.
  thought a black mans heart
  would make him no longer human.
  he pleaded to be saved from jewish doctors
  who suffocated non- compliant patients with pillows.
  his pleas went unanswered..."