What if you knew that every 10-minutes, another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list? That’s the staggering statistic from Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which also encourages you to register in your state to be an organ donor.
If you knew you could save one life, you’d probably do it, right? That’s hero status right there. Well, what if you could save eight? According to LiveOnNY.org, a single organ donor can save up to 8-lives. Now that’s superhero status, last time we checked.
The source notes that aside from saving lives for those awaiting transplants, you could improve the lives of 50-people by signing up to donate tissues and eyes. Now that’s helping a lot of people at once!