Life is truly a gift. While you don’t need to be a probate and/or estate planning attorney to realize and appreciate this fact, we at The Probate Pro are experts in planning for life and for death, and experience life’s fragility with every case.
Why Would We Donate Our Organs?
Because April is National Donate Life Awareness Month, because we are estate planning attorneys, and, more importantly, because we are human, we want to observe National Donate Life Awareness Month as not only an opportunity to think about those who need the gift of life, but about how we, as people, can share our own gift and expand the length and legacy of our own lives, and of our fellow man, well beyond our demise.
Currently, more than 118,000 people are anxiously waiting on an organ transplant. However, the emotional impact of that waiting is tenfold, as loved ones helplessly watch the suffering of someone with whom they share life and deeply care for. And while there are many people who are on the organ donation registry, there have only been slightly more than 5,000 transplants performed in 2017 – a number that doesn’t begin to make a dent in the needs of organ-transplant recipients.
Helping You Help Others
Our probate and estate planning services help people plan for extending the life of their material possessions after they die. After all, it is only natural to worry most about the scope of what we can actually see – the objects that we interact with every day, and that hold years of sentimental value. But without the ultimate gift of life, we wouldn’t know how wonderful it is to love something and someone so much. With every organ donation, someone is given a second chance to experience and acquire their own memories and memorabilia. Just one organ donation not only gifts life to the recipient, but also adds value to the donor’s life and to the lives of loved ones from both donors’ and recipients’ families. Here are just a handful of stories that speak to the transformative power of organ donation.
Obviously, one of the bittersweet aspects of organ donation is that you don’t get to live to see the difference you have made in the lives of others. But you don’t have to die to be an active supporter of organ donation.
If you decide that organ donation is right for you, we are more than happy to help you help others. Once you have made a decision to become a donor, the rest is easy: you can either make your wishes known in a Patient Advocate Designation (or Medical Power of Attorney), or register to become a donor on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry.
And if and when you do decide that you’re ready to start planning for your life’s legacy, any of our experienced and compassionate estate planning attorneys would be happy to go over your options regarding donations to special causes, powers of attorney, Wills, Trusts, and the many other options you have when determining how your life will live on.
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