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My husband saved lives ...
- Apr 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM
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Imagine ...
by giving something you no longer need...
you have this power ...
amazing power ...
with very little effort ...
and no cost to you ...
you ...
yes ...
you ...
can save a life...
a life ...
a LIFE ...
April is National Donate Life Month, a time to raise public awareness
of the critical need for organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donation. ...
Over the years, many participating organizations and individuals found
it restrictive to limit special donation awareness efforts to one week
in April-especially as the week often conflicted with other observances
such as National Volunteer Week, or at times, with Passover or Holy
Week. The change to a month-long observance of 'National Donate Life
Month' underscores the importance of donation of not only organs and
tissues, but also marrow and blood.
The goal is to "raise public awareness of the critical need." The need for...
In
recent years, the science of organ transplantation has made great
strides. Unfortunately, the process of securing and allocating organs
has not matched this progress. There still is a critical shortage of
organs. Here are some statistics: * The number of people waiting to
receive an organ transplant in the United States is rising. There are
now more than 82,000 people on the national organ transplantation
waiting list. * Each day, 63 people receive an organ transplant, but
another 16 people on the waiting list die because organs aren't
available.
Every day, people on the waiting list die because organs aren't available.
There are two essential steps to saving lives through organ donation:
1.
SHARE YOUR LIFE. Decide to be a donor.Transplants provide hope for
thousands of people with organ failure. In addition, hundreds of
thousands more can be helped with tissue transplants. Unfortunately,
the need for donors is much greater than the actual number of donors.
Your commitment to organ and tissue donation can save lives.
2.
SHARE YOUR DECISION. Tell your family. The most important part of
deciding to be a donor is telling your family. Talking about donation
doesn't mean talking about death. It is talking about the opportunity
to give another person a second chance at life...
Comments:
So important, yet something so many people ignore. It's on my driver's license, I'll donate my organs when I'm through using them!
What a wonderful legacy ...
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Cool to think of Don living on like that, Harley! Way cool!
amazing.
thanks for sharing
Organ donation is one of my. .passions. .something i strongly believe in. .it such a beautiful gift people can give.
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A beautiful gift - more people need to do this! voting up!
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voting up!!!!!!!!!!!! great post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- missingruth
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