22/08/2015
You SHOULD Register to be an Organ and Tissue Donor
It's hard to predict our life path, especially when it comes to our health. Genetics and our environment can impact our physical body, especially our organs. Would you be willing to accept an organ for yourself or for a loved one? That can be a difficult question to answer and one that is important to discuss with the entire family.
And no, we are not talking cell phones. Tissue donation can include the gift of tendons, ligaments, bones, and other soft connective tissue that allows individuals the ability to walk, run, dance, and skip again. When put in a situation where one is immobile, it becomes painfully clear how much we value and cherish our ability to be able to move through life on our own two feet. You can provide this gift to people who have undergone ACL tears or experienced loss of bone due to various cancers and other diseases.
It's unavoidable that we will no longer walk on this earth forever (despite all the rise in zombie movies and TV shows). If you could save up to one life through the gift of organ and tissue donation, why not? In fact, one organ and tissue donor can save up to eight lives and enhance up to 50 more. Those lives saved have names. They are children; they are sisters and brothers. They are parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents. They are teachers, firefighters, business owners. They laugh and love. They feel pain and guilt and sorrow. No one wants to be on the waiting list. They certainly hope all of the rest of us understand that too.
