We as humans have the power to give back to others even after we are gone. The results and benefits of being an organ donor have no negative impact on us as individuals but to someone who needs a new heart, lung or kidney the process provides them with another chance at a better quality of life. As you are reading this over 120,000 people are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant, with about 3,000 waiting right here in North Carolina. (Donate Life, 2016) By being an organ donor one individual person has the opportunity to save eight lives by donating two lungs, two kidneys, one heart, liver, pancreas and intestines.In the United States every ten minutes someone is added to the National registry waitlist, approximately every day twenty-two
