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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

We Put A Face To the Need For Organ Donors to Mark Donate Life Month

WDEF TV News 12 | Nordia Epps
April is donate life month...a time to bring awareness to the need for organ donation.

Thousands of your neighbors and loved ones right here in Tennessee are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant.

Jim Jones is one of them.

He's been on the waiting list for a liver for 5 years now.
Jones is one of six thousand people who needs a liver...and among 1 hundred and thirteen 13 thousand waiting for an organ.

Jim Jones says, "When the doctors said get your affairs in order, believe me that one statement from a doctor uh, will change your life."
Donate Life Tennessee urges families to decide now to be an organ donor...not wait until a tragedy strikes.
You can register when you renew your license or online...or right now at https://www.donatelifetn.org/index.aspx

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