Top Ten Reasons Donor Families Should Attend the Games

Here’s what donor families tell us about their experience at the Games:

  1. The Games are a very "safe" place for all donor families. Everyone understands the road we have taken. While our story is individual, our pain and outcome is the same. It really helped me to have that understanding from others. Some of us don't have family and friends that understand the donation process—at the Games we are understood.
  2. Attending the Games reassures you that your loved one’s gift of life was indeed a gift of love and honor.
  3. It provides a chance for giving, grieving, growing and knowing you are not alone.
  4. The experience alone validates the decision making process we went through and that it WAS the right thing for us.
  5. It is an opportunity for tears, laughter, and many hugs!
  6. It is an opportunity for you to be yourself among people who know and understand.
  7. You can meet recipients in action – on the courts, on the track, in the pool – see and experience their renewed quality of life as a result of receipt of the your very generous gift.
  8. To see, firsthand, the miracle of organ donation… it is very emotional, but healing to see the impact of the decision to donate your loved one’s organs.
  9. To meet and share stories with other donor families… it is so healing to realize that you are not alone.
  10. The Games help remind us.... what brings us together gives us hope!