Sally Satel's argument in Death Waiting List states that there is an extreme lack of organ donors in this Company. “70,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing” (132 Satel) and “only about 16,000 people received one last year.” “In large cities, where the ratio of acceptable organs to patients who need them is lowest, the wait is five to eight years and is expected to double by 2010” (132 Satel). There's no reason for the wait to be this long, as anyone can be an organ donor and Satel does a great job explaining the benefits in more detail in their trial. As a former member of the waiting list, Sally Satel resorted to desperate measures when she considered going to the black market to get the kidney she needed and trying a website called matchingdonors. com. She was lucky enough to find a match on the website, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful. As for the black market, she thought it was too risky and dangerous even if she was in a life and death situation. All this could have been avoided if more people in our country considered themselves organ donors. If the black market isn't safe for buying movies or obtaining music illegally, then it's certainly not safe for buying a kidney. This small statement in Satel's essay elicits a shocking emotion from readers. “Someone on the organ donor list dies every ninety seconds” (130 Satel) and time is running out. It is unfortunate that only 30 to 40 percent of Americans have declared themselves donors on their driver's license, while the rest of the percentage is left to family members to make the decision. Satel's belief is that relying on the right thing is not... middle of paper... or a shoe in and she has done a great job of incorporating it without overdoing it. I liked that she never attacked people who choose not to be organ donors, but instead made it clear that this would be a benefit to both the donor and the recipient. She successfully presented counterarguments and was able to turn them into something positive that helped her argument. I completely agree with Satel's reasoning that giving incentives would increase the overall number of donors and I think these steps should be taken sooner rather than later. Innocent lives are lost every day simply because not enough people in the United States put "organ donor" on their driver's licenses. These two very simple words can mean a lot to someone on the waiting list, and there's no reason why everyone shouldn't be a donor, especially with financial incentives..