Sheriff (Curtis) Hill’s efforts to increase organ donor
awareness are wonderful.
Dear Editor:
Sheriff (Curtis) Hill’s efforts to increase organ donor awareness are wonderful.
Unfortunately, lots of similar efforts by many fine people and organizations over the last 20 years have left us with an organ shortage that gets bigger every year.
Increased awareness is not the answer. We need to reward organ donors if we’re going to get enough of them to save the lives of all the people waiting for organ transplants.
The solution is simple and obvious – if you agree to donate your organs when you die, then you go to the front of the waiting list if you ever need an organ to live.
While the federal government isn’t ready to make this common-sense change, the law of the land, a grass-roots group of organ donors called LifeSharers is making it a reality one member at a time.
LifeSharers is a nonprofit network of organ donors. Members agree to donate their organs when they die, but they give fellow members “first dibs” on their organs.
This creates a pool of organs available first to members. The existence of this pool gives other people an incentive to sign donor cards and join the network, and this incentive grows stronger as the network expands.
Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers at
www.lifesharers.com. Membership is free.
Dave Undis,
LifeSharers
executive director
