Comments on: Heart Transplant Recipient Scales Half Dome http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2008/06/30/heart-transplant-recipient-scales-half-dome/ The Insiders Guide to Yosemite Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Yosemite Blog | Interview with Kelly Perkins http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2008/06/30/heart-transplant-recipient-scales-half-dome/#comment-86360 Yosemite Blog | Interview with Kelly Perkins Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:25:06 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/?p=1395#comment-86360 [...] Note: You may remember about a week ago we posted an article about the unstoppable Kelly Perkins who, with the help of husband Craig and Scott Stowe of the Yosemite Mountaineering School climbed [...] [...] Note: You may remember about a week ago we posted an article about the unstoppable Kelly Perkins who, with the help of husband Craig and Scott Stowe of the Yosemite Mountaineering School climbed [...]

]]> By: Dave Undis http://www.yosemiteblog.com/2008/06/30/heart-transplant-recipient-scales-half-dome/#comment-85405 Dave Undis Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:47:53 +0000 http://www.yosemiteblog.com/?p=1395#comment-85405 Your story about Kelly Perkins highlighted the tragic shortage of human organs for transplant operations. Over half of the 99,000 Americans on the national transplant waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over 6,000 of our neighbors suffer and die needlessly every year as a result. There is a simple way to put a big dent in the organ shortage -- give organs first to people who have agreed to donate their own organs when they die. Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. People who aren't willing to share the gift of life should go to the back of the waiting list as long as there is a shortage of organs. Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers. LifeSharers is a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die. Membership is free at www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition. Your story about Kelly Perkins highlighted the tragic shortage of human organs for transplant operations.

Over half of the 99,000 Americans on the national transplant waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over 6,000 of our neighbors suffer and die needlessly every year as a result.

There is a simple way to put a big dent in the organ shortage — give organs first to people who have agreed to donate their own organs when they die.

Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. People who aren’t willing to share the gift of life should go to the back of the waiting list as long as there is a shortage of organs.

Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers. LifeSharers is a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die. Membership is free at http://www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.

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