How does organ donation help save life?

Donated organs are transplanted on to the patients who are suffering from end stage terminal diseases. These are the patients whose normal body functions are compromised to such a degree that they cannot be kept alive or sustained on medicines for a long time. Even if medical procedures are available (eg. dialysis for kidneys disease) they usually entail prohibitively high financial, physical and emotional costs. The donation of human organs and tissues not only save lives of terminally ill patients it also helps in attaining an improved quality of life for many patients. For example, a combined kidney-pancreas transplant recipient won’t be dependent on high dose of insulin; a corneal transplant would bring light in the life of a blind person; a child born with a hole in the heart can lead a normal life after heart valve transplantation and a burn injury patient can be prevented from undergoing metabolic derangement, sepsis and multi organ failure by if a skin graft is performed.