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I donated a kidney to a stranger. It shouldn’t be this difficult for others to give.

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There are people like me who want to become kidney donors. If we want to increase that number, we must ease the burden on transplant donors and recipients and help them navigate the donation process.

By Shmuly Yanklowitz

For many years I debated: Should I be an organ donor?  

As a faith leader who regularly speaks about the value of life, and as a healthy individual with an interest in organ donation, I was genuinely excited about the possibility to save another person.

Nonetheless, it was a very big decision and one I did not take lightly.  Read the full article in USA Today.

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She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?

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“Covid-19 ravaged Heidi Ferrer’s body and soul for over a year, and in May the “Dawson’s Creek” screenwriter killed herself in Los Angeles. She had lost all hope.

“I’m so sorry,” she said in a goodbye video to her husband and son. “I would never do this if I was well. Please understand. Please forgive me.”

Her husband, Nick Guthe, a writer and director, wanted to donate her body to science. But the hospital said it was not his decision to make because Ms. Ferrer, 50, had signed up to be an organ donor. So specialists recovered several organs from the body before disconnecting her from a ventilator.”

Read full story, here.

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