The Guild 12-28-2003 It's about life. Make a donation

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Organ Donation: It's all about LIFE

There are two essential steps to saving lives through organ donation

1. SHARE YOUR LIFE. Decide to be a donor.

Transplants provide hope for thousands of people with organ failure. In addition, hundreds of thousands more can be helped with tissue transplants. Unfortunately, the need for donors is much greater than the actual number of donors. Your commitment to organ and tissue donation can save lives.

2. SHARE YOUR DECISION. Tell your family.

The most important part of deciding to be a donor is telling your family. Talking about donation doesn't mean talking about death. It is talking about the opportunity to give another person a second chance at life. Even if you have signed a donor card or indicated your wish to donate on your driver's license, you need to tell your family since they will be consulted before donation can take place.

	Important facts about donation:
•	There is no national registry of organ and tissue donors. Even if you have signed something, be sure you have told your family of your wishes as they will be consulted before donation can take place.
•	All major religions approve of organ and tissue donation and consider donation the greatest gift.
•	An open casket funeral is possible for organ and tissue donors.
	•	There is no cost to the donor's family or estate for organ and tissue donation. Funeral costs remain the responsibility of the family.
	•	People of all ages and medical histories should consider themselves potential donors. Your medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissue can be donated.

Organ Donor Card
You can download and print out an organ donor card. But remember, completing this card alone is not enough. You also need to discuss your wishes with your family.

Click to Download PDF version or Download JPEG version

To find out more about organ donation, visit the web site of the Coalition on Donation: www.shareyourlife.org


Bone Marrow Donation: The Living Gift of Life

Marrow transplants are the only hope for survival for many children and adults with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other fatal blood diseases and cancers. Unfortunately, nearly 70 percent of these patients cannot find suitably matched marrow donors within their families. They need to find unrelated marrow donors - people who have volunteered to donate marrow if ever matched with any patient in need. A national registry of marrow donors is maintained by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).

Because tissue types are inherited, and some tissue types are unique to certain racial or ethnic groups, a patient's best chance of finding a match is within his or her ethnic and racial group. Currently, the majority of the volunteers on the NMDP Registry are Caucasian. While all volunteer donors are welcome, there is a critical need for minority donors to help the many minority patients searching the Registry.

You can become a volunteer donor through your local donor center if you are between the ages of 18 and 60 and are in good health. To find out the center closest to you, and to learn more about the donation process, go to the National Marrow Donor Program Web Site (www.marrow.org) or call 1-800-MARROW-2.

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[Iowa Granny]

I've never seen as much crappy junk mail and solicitations as my father receives..

I would expect we're all going to see additional junk mail now that the Do Not Call list has been legalized by Congress.

JL, if you figure out how to put a stop to junk mail,,, even junque mail, which is a tad bit classier than ordinary junk mail, please let us all know about your plan.

[lodwick]

Re: junque mail

I asked my letter carrier about this problem, and wondered if stamping return to sender would make them stop - nope, it only goes back to the PO and their dumpsters.

Another factoid I recently learned is that the PO will not forward mail: you must close out your box, after doing the change of address thingie with the valid correspondents, institutions, etc.

This being responsible for someone's else's existence is not all that it's cracked up to be.

[daisyscarlett]

Gosh it is so good to see you back and to hear that your Daddy is getting better and your new truck looks super.

[lodwick]

Thanks much, DS, it is very nice
to be home, and have my internet
connection to friends and acquaintances
once more.

SoCal cheers out there.

[Timeout]

Lie #3: The White House tried to get him fired from CNN.

Later: Oops, it's just a rumor that's "out there".

[BigWaveBetty]

Yes!! That's the one! Mega thank yous!!

[mountaineer]

More African Americans now have college degrees, ushering them into the middle class

This is what moves them off the Dem plantation, and into autonomy. It's no wonder the Dems are nervous.

[mountaineer]

The end of Sex and the City, thank goodness.

[lodwick]

A few of the new show previews I've seen make City Sex look like a wholesome, Godly production.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning.

[lodwick]

G'day up there.

The north wind has taken the temp down to 39
and it appears that we may have a winter this year.

[Iowa Granny]

14 degrees with 8 or 9 inches of snow here. I heard an early morning road report on WHO. Travel is not recommended in Southern Iowa where I am. Roads are clear and dry N. of hwy 30.

[Timeout]

Good Mornin', y'all.

Warning: Get out your hankies before you visit this site.... scroll down for incredibly touching photos.

A Soldier's Funeral, Texas Style
Specialist James Kiehl, age 22, from Comfort, Texas, was killed, along with six other soldiers at the same place and the same day that Jessica Lynch was taken prisoner.

Go with God, Spc. Kiehl.

[lodwick]

Wow!

Thank you.

[mountaineer]

I'll check it out. Here's a story about a local boy who drowned in the Tigris River, trying to save one of his fellow soldiers.

[mountaineer]

Wow, just read it. My first thought: Howard Dean thinks he's going to win on an anti-war platform!

[mountaineer]

Miscellaneous items from The Insider:

Here's Tina Brown's assessment of the Democratic presidential pack: "Lieberman, he of the censorious smile and Jungle Book voice. Kerry, the talking tree with '70s hair. Edwards, hopelessly puppyish at 50. Clark, cyborg hero of places no one can spell. Dean, ... a pisher with no past and no neck, poised to lead his party to angry defeat." And Gephardt? Brown says, "the nation wants swords, not plowshares - Top Gun, not It's a Wonderful Life."

Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson asks: "Why do we need to prove Saddam had weapons of mass destruction? We've already found the bodies!"

Does former secretary of state Madeleine Albright really think she can get by with claiming she was joking when she joined her fellow Democrats in endorsing the febrile conspiracy theory that President Bush captured Osama bin Laden long ago and is hiding him to announce the capture as an October surprise just before the election? As everyone who has covered Foggy Bottom knows, Mrs. Albright does not joke. On purpose.

In testimony at the war crimes trial in The Hague, the issue of Gen. Wesley Clark's character was raised and the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Shelton, was quoted as saying he fired Clark as NATO commander because of "integrity and character issues." Asked about this, Clark claimed he was booted by Shelton for trying to prevent genocide, which the court was left to believe Shelton favors.

[Iowa Granny]

Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Shelton, was quoted as saying he fired Clark as NATO commander because of "integrity and character issues." Asked about this, Clark claimed he was booted by Shelton for trying to prevent genocide, which the court was left to believe Shelton favors.

Well GOOD! Shelton isn't going to leave this unanswered. Had they not gone so far he would have probably kept quiet out of professional courtesy.

[mountaineer]

I certainly hope Gen. Shelton blasts Weasley with both barrels over this incredible lie. Oh the irony - while moveon.org is busy calling GWB another Hitler, it's Clark, Dean, et al., who have appropriated Adolf's successful technique of telling the most outrageous lie often enough that the befuddled masses will start to believe it.

[daisyscarlett]

Sorta reminds me of the Friends' episode when Ross and Rachel got married in Vegas...KNEW IT WOULDN'T LAST

Pop princess Britney Spears will be single again after a madcap marriage over the weekend to a childhood friend. Both have filed for an annulment of their quickie wedding in Las Vegas which apparently happened after they took a 'a joke too far'(AFP/Getty Images/File/Kevin Winter)