The All the Ways campaign encourages Albertans to register and share their organ and tissue donation decisions.
Carrah Walter, holds a photo of her son Beau who died August 20, 2022. The family made the decision to donate his organs and tissue. Leah Hennel / AHS
Give Life Alberta asks Albertans to register their decision to donate and to discuss their wishes with their families. You canat the Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry or at a registry office. From there, you can indicate whether you’d like to be an organ donor, tissue donor or both. A single organ donor can save up to eight lives. Registrants can choose what is and isn’t donated from a list including the kidneys, liver, lungs, heart, pancreas and the small intestine. But not every registered donor will be able to offer this precious gift; for this reason, maximizing the pool of potential donors is key to saving lives.
For a person’s organs to be considered for donation at the end of their life, they must already be on life support as a result of their injuries. Kramer says that many more people are likely to be considered for tissue donation. One tissue donor can help heal up to 75 people, with life-changing gifts such as eyes, heart valves, bones, tendons and skin, among others.
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