Organ and Tissue Donations Save Lives!

Donate Blood, Plasma, Tissue or Organs... Save a Life!

If you saw a little girl in the middle of the road and a car was racing toward her, sure to hit her, and she was oblivious to that fact, would you try to move her out of the way?

If you saw a bunch of people trapped in a burning building, would you try to do something to help?

If your own child were sick, would you do everything in your power, even if it meant you might risk your own life, to help your child get

 well?

Daily, there are people who indeed do things that might put their own life at risk in order to protect or save the life of another. These are good people... helpful people... modern-day heroes.

Yet, currently there are 92,000 people who are dying and on the organ transplant lists--and many of these same modern-day heroes are not nor have ever considered becoming organ donors--something that doesn't even put their life at risk.

Over 3,700 people will be added to the transplant list every month, while only about 2,300 people actually receive transplants each month, suffering with illnesses, pain, discomfort, and poor quality of life while waiting for a transplant.

Over 540 people die every month waiting for a viable organ donation.

Clearly, more people will be added to the list every month than are removed from the list, and many removed from the list are only removed because their loved ones are left to mourn their deaths.

The sad fact is--many, if not the majority, of those deaths could be prevented or delayed--and the quality of life for thousands of others could be increased by one thing: more organ donations.

Approximately 10,000 people die every day in America....(stats vary every year)

I know this is morbid to think about, but it's true. Death is absolutely an inevitable part of life, and it's a conclusion we will all face at some point. However, if every one of those 10,000 people who died daily were organ donators, you can do the math and see that it would not take long for every person on the organ donation transplant list, which only adds 3,700 people per day, to actually receive a donated organ and have their life-saving surgery.