Opinion | Organ transplants: Let’s help those left behind | TheSpec …
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Delilah Saunders, a young Indigenous woman with life-threatening liver failure in an Ontario hospital, has been in the news over the past several weeks because she has been refused a potentially…

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NJ Sharing Network president says organ donors should convey …
Daily Record
Joe Roth of Morris Plains, the president and CEO of NJ Sharing Network, was honored for helping raise organ donation awareness.
‘People have clearly been inspired’: There have been 1400 organ donor cards requested in the past fortnightthejournal.ie
Organ donor campaigner speaks of incredible ‘gift of life’ after waiting 14 years for transplantChronicleLive
Wishaw woman urges others to sign up to organ register after kidney …Scottish Daily Record

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Nutley wrestling tournament raising awareness for organ donation
NorthJersey.com
“He went from a five percent chance of survival to the poster child for organ transplant. It’s a great overall story.” DiPiano’s new lease on life will be recounted at the eighth annual Gift of Life Wrestling Duals, set for Jan. 13 at Nutley High …

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Karns man’s overdose death leads to organ donation for his grandmother
WBIR-TV
The opioid epidemic has led to more organ donors and transplants across the country. According to federal data, the number of organ donors who died of overdose more than doubled from 2014 to 2017. Billy Jarvis with Tennessee Donor Services is a organ …

Canada Conjoining Euthanasia/Organ Donation
National Review
In my first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek in 1993, I warned that eventually medicalized killing/suicide would be conjoined with organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” “Slippery slope argument!” my detractors yelled at me. “Alarmist …

Anglesey man whose wife provided ‘gift of life’ encourages families to talk about organ donation
Rhyl Journal
AN RAF Valley man has told how giving others ‘the gift of life’ after donating his wife’s organs brought “great comfort” to his family. Graham Heighton said he was “devastated” when his 67-year-old wife Catherine Maria Heighton died at Ysbyty Gwynedd …

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Organ donation changes dying for those getting medically assisted …
CBC.ca
When ALS diminished Brian Wadsworth’s quality of life, he asked for medical assistance in dying. Organ donation was the natural next choice. And while the decision came with logistical challenges and ethical concerns, his loved ones say he never looked …

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Many benefit from Avon Lake woman’s organ donation
Chronicle Telegram
“My sister saved six people who were on the organ transplant list — the person who received her liver was in critical condition and was going to die without it.” Yip said her sister’s heart went to someone who was had lingered on the donor list …

Dorset residents urged to join NHS Organ Donor Register as five wait for heart transplants
Bournemouth Echo
“We desperately need more people in Dorset to agree to donation to help with the number of people waiting for hearts and organs of every kind. “Whatever the outcome of the Opt Out consultation, if you support organ donation, please act today. “Tell …

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