Views from Augusta: Celebrate National Donate Life Month by Becoming an Organ Donor

This week, I joined organ donors and their loved ones at the State House to proclaim April as “Organ Donation Month” in Maine.

The number of Maine people who received organ transplants has nearly doubled from 66 to 124, just in the last five years. I read recently about one of those transplant recipients, an eight-year-old girl named Emily from Sanford. While they were waiting for Emily’s lung transplant, her mother said she remembered thinking, “I may not have a daughter on Mother’s Day. We were planning for her funeral.”