holiday Monday diversion / do some good, y'all

is it a holiday where you are? (they are not picking up trash on my block, so it is here)
Let’s start the year with a tissue and a Rick Reilly piece from ESPN about the Rose Bowl parade this morning. About one particular float in the parade, and about how it will make people cry … and might save lives.

Regular readers of Manhattan Loft Guy know where this is going: to a link to how to sign up for organ donation for the time when you no longer need them. That would be the page on DonateLifeNY.org that has the form to be filled out if you are a New York State resident (for info on other states, click here).

Reilly does some math:

There were 65 million registered donors in the U.S. in 2006. Now there are 102 million. That’s still only 42 percent of 18-and-over Americans, but people are starting to get it: Death can mean life.

If half the readers of this blog sign up, that will make it just over 102,000,500 (approximately).

And if you want a heart-warming real life story about the living donation of a kidney, read this September 4, 2011 post from the Manhattan Loft Guy archives.

That’s DonateLifeNY.org. Do. It. Now. Please.

© Sandy Mattingly 2012