Organ Donation: Save a Life

I have a family member who needs a kidney. For various medical reasons, none of us can give him one. We've known that someday it would be needed. The waiting game continues. Once you get on the registry, you wait and hope.

I guess this is why I always sign my license and mark "full body donor." And I tell my husband, if something bad ever happens, to tell the doctors to take what they can and save/improve another's life.

For whatever reason, I have found this topic--organ donation--to be a sensitive one. I don't understand why. I can't think of a better, more lasting mark to leave on this world than to save or improve a life or lives.

Karen