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Each April, the United States recognizes National Donate Life Month, bringing attention to organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation. Donate Life month honors and recognizes those who have saved lives through the gift of organ donation. It is only through the generosity of donor families and donors that makes saving lives through organ transplantation possible. It is also a good time to share with your family your decision to be a donor, check the organ donor box when you renew your driver’s license, and consider the healing gift of sharing a living organ through the gift of transplantation. Across the country, 104,000 people are currently on the transplant list, waiting for a kidney, liver, pancreas, heart or lungs. Every nine minutes another person is added to the wait list. In Nevada, 667 people are on that waiting list. Tanisha Ellerbe, 50, from Las Vegas, Nevada, and a robotics and cyber security teacher at Liberty High School in Henderson was on that waiting list. She
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