The book Unwind is a fictional book written by Neal Shusterman. In the book, everybody donates 99.4 percent of their body when they are unwound. In the future, this may actually be possible. Based on information that I found, it could happen and the future and decrease the numbers of people on the waiting list for organs.
Part of the book could happen in today’s world and in the future with technology advancing and the demand for organs rising. Organs are matched by blood and tissue typing, organ size, medical urgency, waiting time, and geographic location, so it is definitely very difficult to match organs. In the present, you can’t donate everything. You might not even be able to donate the organs that are donatable. Your medical condition …show more content…
Scientists are not actually growing organs, but taking different tissue and putting different parts together like a puzzle piece and creating a whole organ. They are putting these tissues into small areas and seeing whether they can make any connections. In the book, something similar to this happened. A boy named Cyrus had received a part of the brain from a previous boy. This is reasonably what the scientists are doing, except they are dealing with brain tissue, not whole portions of the brain like the novel. For example, if someone has lost their ability to move their fingers, doctors will fix the tissue in your brain so they can have function in their hands. People who are paralyzed in all four limbs often die prematurely. If surgeons could transfer the healthy body of a donor (such as someone who is brain-dead) to the healthy head of a paralyzed person, they could extend the time of that person’s life. This is some of the stuff that had taken place in Unwind too. In advance, the medicine and technology in the world is progressing so this could even possibly happen in the next decade. (Tyson,
Part of the book could happen in today’s world and in the future with technology advancing and the demand for organs rising. Organs are matched by blood and tissue typing, organ size, medical urgency, waiting time, and geographic location, so it is definitely very difficult to match organs. In the present, you can’t donate everything. You might not even be able to donate the organs that are donatable. Your medical condition …show more content…
Scientists are not actually growing organs, but taking different tissue and putting different parts together like a puzzle piece and creating a whole organ. They are putting these tissues into small areas and seeing whether they can make any connections. In the book, something similar to this happened. A boy named Cyrus had received a part of the brain from a previous boy. This is reasonably what the scientists are doing, except they are dealing with brain tissue, not whole portions of the brain like the novel. For example, if someone has lost their ability to move their fingers, doctors will fix the tissue in your brain so they can have function in their hands. People who are paralyzed in all four limbs often die prematurely. If surgeons could transfer the healthy body of a donor (such as someone who is brain-dead) to the healthy head of a paralyzed person, they could extend the time of that person’s life. This is some of the stuff that had taken place in Unwind too. In advance, the medicine and technology in the world is progressing so this could even possibly happen in the next decade. (Tyson,