April is National Donate Life Month: Saving Lives Through Transplantation Remains Great

UAB News Each April, Donate Life America leads National Donate Life Month, an observance focusing 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, honoring deceased and living donors, and celebrating the lives they saved. It is the generosity of donors and donor families that makes saving lives through transplantation possible. Donate LifeSM is the national brand for the cause of donation, uniting the hundreds of donation and transplantation organizations; the more than 100,000 patients waiting for transplant, with over 1,200 waiting in Alabama; the life and legacy of the millions of recipients in the United States and their families; the donor families who say yes in their time of grief; and the more than 170 million people who have registered their decision to be a donor and help others at the end of their life. “This April, we want to remind everyone that they can help save a life,” said Christy Keahey, executive director of Legacy of Hope. “Registering your decision to be an organ, eye and tissue donor takes less than a minute and gives hope to those...