Organ Donation

Seeing as I am the M3 Transplant Team for another week, I feel it is my obligation to make a plug for organ donation. Basically, I'm not going to try to convince you one way or the other, although my personal thought is I'm not going to need them once I've gone on to happier hunting grounds, but I think you should know about some new legislation in MS.

As of July 1, 2008, the First Person Consent Law will take affect. This means if you have that little heart on your Drivers License, you are officially in MORA's (Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency) website as an organ donor. So, no matter what you're family, power of attorney, or great aunt Marge thinks, you're organs are going on to help those in need. (Compare this to when that heart was only a suggestion of your wishes.) In case you haven't registered with the DMV, you can still go to msora.org to be put on the registry.

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