Reasons to become an organ donor 14 Articles

by Sue Patten

A life over, a new one just begun. I worked with a gentleman whose 13 year old daughter had had kidney problems from birth. In the summer of 1996 she was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and her parent...read more

by Karen Iwicki

My mother's best friend, Mickey, passed out of this life and into the light yesterday. That might not seem like a big deal to many people, but this fine lady who had devoted her whole life to caring for others will live on...read more

by Daneen Bell

Organ donation is a very personal issue for me. Since the age of 7 one of my best friends, Pam, lived with the diagnoses of "Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemosiderosis". Essentially this meant the capillaries in her lungs broke, ...read more

by Jennifer Glasgow

Being a giver of life is there anything more wonderful. Mothers around the world will tell you that it is the greatest gift one can ever receive. That is what you give when you donate your organs to another soul. You ar...read more

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by Blair Kuntz

Some may not like what they're about to read, but it's my honest and true feeling about why I should be an organ donor. Do I particularly care about saving the life of someone I don't know, not really. Do I stand on some...read more

by Renee Dawson

She is a brand new born baby. She is beautiful and perfect. Her Mommy and Daddy take her home and show her off to family and friends. Two days later, she is back in the hospital. Something is wrong, she has non-stop vo...read more

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by Laurie Johansen

Why someone needs reasons to become an organ donor is something I cannot comprehend. Instead of giving you reasons to become an organ donor, I am going to give you names, tell you stories, and show you life. Names like 1...read more

by Nicola Langlands

In 1989 I was waiting for an operation that would not only change my life but save it but it would also make think about life in a completely different way. In 1987 I was put on the Transplant waiting listed because I nee...read more

by Erin Thompson

Rosemary Treloar knows where her kidney is at all times. Treloar, professor of elementary education at Edinboro University, says her left kidney is in her husband. At the age of five, her husband injured one of his k...read more

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by Beth Burns

I knew the moment I was handed my very first driver's license that I would be an organ donor. I never considered NOT being an organ donor. I knew that the only reason my Dad could see was because two different people don...read more

by D Pennington

By a show of hands How many of us have a driver license? How many of us are 18 years old or older? How many of us have access to the internet, a phone or a mailbox? If you raised your hand to any of these question...read more

by Verity Ward

Are you sick of looking for that extra special present to give someone? Well how about giving up a little bit of yourself, or more specifically one of your organs? There's no need to panic we're only talking about a k...read more

by Angela Michelle Adams

When I was very young I had many things wrong with me. being born with Spina bifida was hardly heard of back in the 1960s so they had no idea I would even live or die and they said if I made it I would not live past age t...read more

by Denise Difalco

Allowing my father's death to give the "Gift of Life" to others was the most honorable tribute our family could do. Dad would often set aside his own needs to help out the less fortunate throughout his life and this wou...read more