Did you know that according to a web site (http://www.organdonor.gov on the Internet, each day sixty lives are saved because someone decided to donate their organs? On the other side of the scale seventeen people die each day still waiting. You have to wonder if it will be enough just because you decide to donate. Well logically speaking it will never be enough but it can and it will help. Just say YES! Would it be different if you watched a family member go waiting on a donor organ?

One of the questions that always arise is; if I am in an accident and the hospital knows that I am a donor, will the doctors actually try to save my life? This is not true. Humans are not thought of as spare parts if that were so then we could grow them in a field and pluck them from the earth when we needed something. The fact is that organ and tissue recovery only starts after all life saving efforts

Some people who have received a transplant organ think that they have acquired some of the donor's characteristics. This is considered a myth; there is no scientific evidence that has proved that the recipient gets new urges to play golf just because the person who donated the lung was a golf player. The media has spawned this myth mostly. It is considered a phenomenon and has never been proven with factual evidence. One fact is that transplanted organs do not have a "memory" so characteristics or hobbies can not be exchanged in this way. It is believed that the power of suggestion or the experience of the illness and transplant had an effect on the person, causing them to develop a liking for certain activities they did not partake in before. Kind of like they have a new outlook on life and want to try new things so that the second chance at life won't go wasting away.

Do the rich and famous get preferential treatment on the U.S. recipient waiting list? No, they have to wait in line like everyone else. In fact if you look up the site http://www.organdonor.gov it is quoted by reading: "First, patients are matched to donor organs bases on a number of factors including: blood and tissue typing, medical urgency, time on the waiting list, and geogra

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