Transplants happen to other people…
April 1, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Transplants are something that happen to someone else. Dying is also something that happens to someone else. Having to make heart wrenching decisions about death, dying and transplantation happens in other families, to other people. Or do they?
But what if – just what if – someone you loved became ill and the only way to survive was to receive an organ from someone else? Would those transplants and deaths only be happening to someone else?
Over 100,000 people in the U.S. need an organ transplant.
More than half of these individuals will die before an organ becomes available.
In the time it will …read more




