Alabama Organ Center Celebrates National Donate Life Month, National Blue & Green Day April 21

By Tyler Greer

The Alabama Organ Center (AOC), in conjunction with Donate Life America, is celebrating National Donate Life Month and National Blue & Green Day on Friday, April 21, by encouraging all Alabamians to register to give the gift of life to someone in need.

“One of the greatest gifts we can leave our fellow man upon death is an opportunity to extend the lives of others by donating our organs and tissues to those in need,” said Chris Meeks, executive director of the AOC. “We are humbled by the generous nature of the residents of Alabama who have already registered their decision to be organ donors, and we would love for those who have not yet done so to join them and all of the families who support organ, eye and tissue donation, and register to be a donor today.”

Those who wish to register to be an organ, eye and tissue donor can do so online at www.alabamaorgancenter.org.Each year, Donate Life America creates artwork for National Donate Life Month that illustrates the power of donation. The 2017 National Donate Life Month art uses pinwheels to tell the donation story. Pinwheels capture and pass on energy. Each Donate Life pinwheel has four sails supported by one stem. The one stem symbolizes the power of one person to save and heal lives through donation. The four sails represent organ, eye, tissue and living donation, the four ways one person can save and heal more than 75 lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, and even save a life through the gift of living donation.

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