Donate Life

Ten years ago my 7-year-old son Nicholas was shot in a botched robbery in Italy and his organs donated to seven Italians. Since then donation rates in Italy have tripled and thousands of people, many of them children, are alive who would have died. On New Year’s Day, an estimated 40 million television viewers and 1 million spectators watching the Rose Parade will see the Donate Life float, which highlights the stunning power of organ and tissue donation to transform lives. By simply signing a donor card and discussing donation with our families, we can do for the United States what Nicholas’ story did for Italy.

More information is available by contacting OneLegacy, the nonprofit organization that facilitates organ donation in the Los Angeles area, at (800) 786-4077 or www.onelegacy.org.

Reg Green

La Canada