You have the opportunity to share your story about how tissue donation has affected your life. You can help remember those selfless people who gave the gift of life or recognize how tissue donation can truly be a life changing gift.
You may be the one that stimulates a potential donor to give life and hope to as many as 50 other people through tissue donation.
Here are some questions to help you get started:
Donor Families
Please share with us the story of your family member’s life.
Was your loved one a registered organ and tissue donor? If not, why did you decide to donate?
What does it mean to you that they were a tissue donor?
How does knowing your loved one lives on in others help you?
Were you aware of tissue donation before this experience?
Do you know how many people have benefited from your loved one’s final gift?
Tissue Recipients
Why did you need a tissue transplant?
How is your life different after the tissue transplant?
What are you able to do now, that you were not able to do before the surgery?
If you could say something to the donor/donor family what would it be?
Were you aware of tissue donation before this experience?