Illinois Organ Donation - Organ Donor - I Am. Are you?

*UPDATE: Donate Life Illinois is continuing their "I am. Are you?" campaign, now with a goal of registering 5 million Illinois residents as organ donors by April 30, 2009. Let's keep spreading the word and saving lives!
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Official video for Donate Life Illinois' "I am. Are you?" campaign - an 18-month effort to register 3.5 million Illinois residents as organ donors in the state's new first-person consent registry by April 2008.

Most Illinois residents do not realize that signing the back of your driver's license is no longer adequate to ensure your wishes to be an organ/tissue donor are honored.

You need to RE-REGISTER after Jan. 1, 2006 to be included in the state's new donor registry. Help us save the lives of the 4,700 Illinoisans and over 99,000 people nationwide who are waiting for an organ transplant and a second chance at life. Support organ/tissue donation and register or re-register online today at:

http://www.DonateLifeIllinois.org

*Non-Illinois residents can register at http://www.ShareYourLife.org

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[hannTLK]

I am a recipiant! i was 6 months old when i recieved a new liver.

Please donate your organs!

[scmeis]

Very cool, congrats!

[doranllybayb07]

I'm writing a persuasive essay and after seeing this video I believe I found my topic. I also was not registered as an organ donor but I am now. I don't live in Illinois but I am impressed with the effort and I think this should be more widely stressed nation wide.

[scmeis]

Fantastic, that's great to hear, thanks for helping save lives!

[MyDavidsun]

interesting video !

[vvision02]

April is here again and its National Donate Life Month.  Please Discuss Your Wishes With Your Family Or Friend Your Decision To Be Or Not To Be An Organ Donor. Donors Are Heros

[vvision02]

Hi,my name is vision and those that don't belive that donation work. It works. I received a kidney and yes, as Vicklou say, people are dying everyday waiting on and organ. I am one of the ones that made it. I am on this video with my son who was only eight years old when my kidney lefted me.He is now 25

[ben5017]

You seem to think we don't support these heavily socialized hospitals anyway ... those who cannot pay don't, the old people pay little and the ones in the middle get hit with the huge taxes and have to pay on top of it.

Is'nt it amazing, hospitals are free market when it comes to wanting to make cash, but socialists when they are asking for grants and bonds we pay for.

It's time for a change in the healthcare system ... or the current system can fail for all I care. I am tired of corruption!

[ben5017]

I am very familiar with the US medical care system and how corrupt it is ... I am sorry, but yes it is a protest. When the corruption ends, or they nationalize the healthcare in America, I will do it.

People in America pay more tax than any nation in the world without nationalized healthcare. The huge military, nation building, you choose it ... We are overtaxed as Americans.

Again, what is wrong wiht my family making a profit off an organ if the hospital is going to make a profit?

[DonateLifeIllinois]

Hospitals are reimbursed for the costs of operating rooms and services for organ donation in the same way that they are paid for any other service. The issue of profit is not a donation issue rather a healthcare issue. Sorry to hear that you would make the decision to not donate organs and tissues to save the lives of so many desperate people who will die without, simply in protest of the healthcare system.

[ben5017]

If the hospitals cannot afford to give their operation for free, what makes you think they don't already get tons of money through grants, bonds, and our taxes?

If hospitals cannot give the operations for free, I cannot give them my organs because they should not profit off it. I am sure the hospital puts a charge in for the organ somehow ... if the hospitals are to profit, why can the familys of the dead not too?

I think you mistake my intent ... it is about greed in the hospitals!

[DonateLifeIllinois]

While we appreciate the sentiment, it is not realistic to think that hospitals can afford to provide transplant surgeries for free. The support hospitals receive through grants, etc., is not nearly enough to cover the costs associated with providing services surgeries, treatment, etc. for patients. As to your comment about compensating donor families - donor families, in general, tell us that offering them money for their selfless gift of donation would be insulting to them.

[ben5017]

why can the hospitals profit off organ donation?

These hospitals get grants, levies, and bonds to support them ... the fact is why can the family of dead cannot get compensated as the hospital?

If I am going to ever going to donate organs, the hospitals will have to do the surgery for free for the person receiving the organ!

Hospitals should do the operations for free ...