More than 100,000 people across the country are currently waiting for a life-saving organ transplant with 1,200 men, women, and children waiting in Alabama.
Published: April 23, 2021
Each April, Donate Life America (DLA) leads National Donate Life Month (NDLM), an observance to focus national attention on the need and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation. National Donate Life Month is about the importance of registering your decision to be a donor, and honoring deceased and living donors – recognizing that the generosity of donors makes saving lives through transplantation possible.
Donate Life is the national brand for the cause of donation, uniting the hundreds of donation and transplantation organizations; the hundreds of thousands of recipients, living donors, donor families, supporters and patients waiting; and the 165 million people who have registered their decision to be a donor at the end of their life.
More than 100,000 people across the country are currently waiting for a life-saving organ transplant with 1,200 men, women and children waiting in Alabama. Thousands of more people are waiting for life-saving and healing cornea and tissue transplants. Only 3 in 1,000 people die in a way that allows for organ donation to take place. That is why it is important for everyone to register their life-saving decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor. Learning more about and considering living donations is another way to help those waiting for a second chance at life.
“This April, we want to remind everyone that they can help save a life. Registering your decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor takes less than a minute and gives hope to those waiting. The decision to register as a donor is the beginning of a story that may bring life and healing to more than 100 people, their families and their communities,” says Chris Meeks, Executive Director Legacy of Hope.
How to participate in National Donate Life Month 2021
Give hope and help save lives by registering your decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor at RegisterMe.org or in the Medical ID tab of your iPhone Health app or at LegacyofHope.org.
To those who have already registered their donation decision, thank you! Help continue to save lives by sharing the Donate Life message, educating others about the need and how their generosity can help save and heal lives.