Ned Rae ON A SOAP BOX!!

I stand here today because some cared enough and had a tremendous love for their fellow man. I to this time do not know the name of my life saver. I do know he or she is in the arms of our Lord and Savior

Here is some mind provoking information.
The need for donated organs and tissue continues to grow. Over 95,000 men, women and children currently await life saving organ transplants. Sadly, an average of 18 people die each day due to a lack of an available organ.
Every organ and tissue donor can save and enhance the lives of up to 50 people. I was given the gift of life through a liver transplant and I feel God has placed me in a position to bring this issue to your attention.

Waiting list:
candidates 104,750 as of 11/03/2009

Transplants January - July 2009 16,680 as of 10/30/2009

Donors January - July 2009 8,542 as of 10/30/2009

My friends, do the math. There are 104,750 needing some sort of transplant, liver, kidney, lung, heart, eyes, skin, pancreas and intestine. Of the 104 plus thousand waiting only 16,680 received a life saving gift. Those left live each day wondering if it will be their last. I have been there my friends, I was one of those stats, July 25, 2009 I received my liver. Doctors said I would have expired by the second week of August. 18 people died today waiting for their turn. Be a donor ladies and gentlemen, you have everything to gain.

Based on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Data

July 25, 2009 is my second birthday. I thank the family that blessed me with the gift of life. You have the power to donate life. Be an Organ and Tissue Donor!

www.donatelife.net

TO REMEMBER ME by Robert N. Test

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise,
a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.

Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing
but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage
of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchild play.

Give my kidneys to the one who depends on a machine
to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body
and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weakness
and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to the devil.

Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed
or word to someone who needs you.

If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.......