YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Follow us to learn more about organ donation and our national efforts to raise awareness about the critical need for donated organs. We are finding inspiration in unexpected places.

BECAUSE ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION MATTERS

There are over 113,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant. Registering takes only a few minutes. Please encourage your family, friends and colleagues to pledge the "gift of life" by signing up at your State's donor registry. Click HERE to learn how. Californians, please visit Donate Life California.

Our Pledge Life Memorial, "Celebrate Life...Remembrance". We are pledging to HONOR, remember and celebrate the lives of donors, transplant recipients, donation and transplant community members. Will you PLEDGE with us to do the same?
DL Life Logo April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST DL Life Logo 91,996 waiting for a kidney DL Life Logo 16,098 waiting for a liver DL Life Logo 1,269 waiting for a pancreasDL Life Logo 2,153 waiting for a Kidney-PancreasDL Life Logo 3,172 waiting for a heartDL Life Logo 1,632 waiting for a lungDL Life Logo 52 waiting for a heart-lungDL Life Logo 278 waiting for small bowelDL Life Logo One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives DL Life Logo One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals DL Life Logo You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HEREDL Life Logo

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Our son's death helped this little girl to be born: How organ donor enabled man to be father, UK

Daily Mail UK | Lucy Laing

No one could be prouder of toddler Emily Smith than her parents Mark and Caroline.

But Pat and Dave Rogers run them pretty close.

When their son Adam died after being attacked on a night out, they agreed that his organs could be donated.

Mr Smith was among five recipients – and his new kidney made him healthy enough to become a father at the age of 40. He was already in touch with Mr and Mrs Rogers after writing them a letter of thanks, and they shared his joy at Emily’s arrival.

‘When we saw Mark and Caroline’s beautiful daughter it was so emotional, knowing that Adam had helped make it happen,’ said Mrs Rogers, 59, from Blackburn, a former assistant principal of a sixth-form college.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096259/Grief-pride-organ-donors-parents-Our-sons-death-helped-little-girl-born.html#ixzz1lREkKxYa

0 COMMENTS: