Life... A Gift Given and Received With Love and Joy

Experience this YouTube onedaytolive.org video response where music and acting illustrate how one girl gives her life to a boy so he might live as she lived in a beautiful and safe world. The short drama touches on how fragile, yet enduring life is and that it should be seen as a celebration to be exchanged, not thrown away. 

What would you want to do on your last day? Focus on yourself, a fleeting vessel with only hours to live? Or pour the remaining essence of life into a new vessel with a promising future. That's a statement of selfless generosity so rare in our world.

Based on U.S Department of Health and & Human Services the need for organ donation is real and the gap continues to widen to donate the gift of life. 

• 110k people are waiting just in US
• 18 people will die each day waiting for an organ
• 1 organ donor can save up to 8 lives

To cover all bases, it's also helpful to:

• Designate your decision on your driver's license
• Tell your family about your donation decision
• Tell your physician, faith leader, and friends
• Include donation in your advance directives, will, and living will

• Express and share your wishes
• Make your wishes official 

To learn more about the facts in US is the Department of health and human services site organdonor.gov is a good place to start.