Top Ten Reasons Living Donors Should Attend the Games

Here’s what living donors and their families tell us:

  1. If no one has thanked you yet (or you don't even think you need to be thanked), go and receive the thanks and love that you deserve from people you don't even know. It feels good to be honored for your selfless act of love and you deserve it
  2. It means so much to the recipients to have their donors with them in spirit and in person!
  3. It is an honor to experience the Transplant Games through the successes of the transplant recipients. To survive, to flourish, to be given a second chance at life...that is an inspiration. It's what makes the Transplant Games such a celebration of life.
  4. It’s a wonderful opportunity for living donors to share stories and experiences with others who have done the same thing.
  5. It means so much if you are able to put a medal around the neck of a winning athlete, especially when that athlete is your organ recipient.
  6. The standing ovation the audience and recipients give is awesome! It’s the one and only place you will ever receive such adoration and kindness.
  7. You’ll get to march together with all the other living donors into Opening Ceremonies.
  8. You’ll show that one can donate a kidney and return to full health and vitality.
  9. You will be absolutely overwhelmed by the all the positive energy you’ll get from attending. It is a life-changing event.
  10. You get to see the gift of life that you have given in action!