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Katherine,
her mother Nancy and the Heigl family work
tirelessly to raise awareness
of organ, eye and tissue donation. This is a subject very close
to their hearts, as Katherine's brother Jason was a donor after
he was tragically killed in a car accident in 1986.
Statistics
- More
than 90,000 men, women and children currently await
life-saving transplants.
- Every
12 minutes another name is added to the national transplant
waiting list.
- An
average of 17 people die each day from the lack of available
organs for transplant.
- In
2004, there were 7,150 deceased organ donors and 6,990 living
organ donors resulting in 27,028 organ transplants.
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Nearly 47,000 cornea transplants were performed in 2004.
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Approximately 1,000,000 tissue transplants are
performed annually
For the
latest donation and transplantation data, information and
statistics visit the
UNOS Website.
How You
Can Help The
Coalition on Donation is a not-for-profit alliance of
national organizations and local coalitions across the United
States dedicated to inspiring all people to donate life through organ and tissue donation. The Coalition’s efforts focus on the
life-saving aspects of donation and encourage people to take
action now to ensure their donation wishes are carried out
later.
Katherine and Nancy recipients of the
Dr. James S. Wolf Courage Award
By wearing or
using Donate Life items,
you can help to spread the message about organ, eye and tissue
donation, initiate conversations and look good too! To order the bracelet worn by Katherine in the photo
click here! To find
out how you can help to promote donation visit the
Donate Life
website. Please let the
Coalition know how you found your way to their site by filling
in the comment form
- it only takes a few seconds.
"It's hard for people to be
thinking about organ donation for the first time in the midst of
crisis," said Katherine in an interview for
Spotlight Health in May 2002. "But organ donation is the
most honorable way to preserve the memory of someone you love. I
learned through difficult experience that this is the right and
humanitarian thing to do. The need is always out there. Make
sure the people around you know your feelings on organ donation,
so your loved ones can fulfill those wishes without any doubt."
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