The Green Chair’s meaning is two-fold. When it is empty, the Green Chair represents overwhelming sadness from the loss of someone who died waiting for a transplant. But when someone is sitting in the Green Chair, it showcases a transplant recipient’s second chance at life. The tagline of the Green Chair Campaign is “Don’t let another chair go empty” because encouraging more people to register as organ donors means there will be fewer empty chairs.
The Donate Life Sit-in will make that tagline a reality, and the timing of the event could not be more crucial. There are nearly 110,000 people on the national transplant waiting list, including over 3,000 Ohioans. The organ shortage continues to grow at a staggering rate, as another person is added to the waiting list every 10 minutes. Sadly, 20 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. The good news: One person has the power to save up to eight lives through organ donation and heal 125 more through tissue donation.
Metamora family s experience highlights importance of organ donation after daughter receives lifesaving gift This is the true gift that you can give to someone else to let your loved one carry on through organ donation. Author: Emily Cohen Updated: 8:30 PM EDT March 15, 2021
METAMORA, Ohio Allie Herr is alive, healthy and thriving today, all because of an organ donation she received when she was just 2 years old. I m doing sports, I am involved in every single high school event that every other kid would be in, said 17-year-old Allie Herr.
However, that wasn t always the case.
Allie was born with biliary atresia, a rare disease that blocks the flow of bile from the liver to the gallbladder.