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This Holiday Season
give the gift of life
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- The holidays are a time when many of us
are focused on gifts and giving. But there
are thousands of people in this community
who are hoping to receive the most important
gift of all this season - the gift of life.
This past year, more than
1,000 people in our community have already
received a life-saving transplant, thanks to
the generosity of many donors and their
families. But even more continue to wait -
specifically, close to 5,400 people in this
region alone, joining the 100,000 patients
who wait nationwide.
Gift of Life Donor Program
- the organ procurement organization for
eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey
and Delaware - urges you to help give hope
during the holidays and register as an organ
and tissue donor.
You can now give the
greatest gift online as well. It's simple,
quick, and just one donor can save or
enhance the lives of up to 50 people.
In Pennsylvania and
Delaware, residents who want to support
organ and tissue donation can act
immediately instead of waiting until you
renew your driver's license to add the donor
designation to their license. Through the
two state Web sites,
http://www.donatelife-pa.org and
http://www.donatelife-de.org,
residents with a driver's license or state
I.D. card have the ability
to go online to a secure page within the
state's Department of Transportation Web
site to add the donor designation to their
record immediately.
In New Jersey, you can
also log onto
http://www.donatelifenj.org to
get more information about donation, as well
as sign up to be alerted when the state's
online registry is ready.
Regardless of where you
are, it's also important to talk with your
family and friends about your decision to
donate, so they can understand your wishes
and see how important it is to designate
themselves.
Check out
http://www.donors1.org and link
to either the Pennsylvania, New Jersey or
Delaware Donate Life sites. Saving lives is
just one click away!
About Gift of Life: Gift
of Life is a nonprofit organ procurement
organization that coordinates organ and
tissue donation and transplantation in the
eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New
Jersey and Delaware. For the last 33 years,
Gift of Life Donor Program has served as the
link between donors and patients awaiting
life-saving transplants, coordinating over
25,000 vital organ transplants and tens of
thousands of tissue transplants. For more
information, please call Gift of Life Donor
Program
