The Gift of life.

I read the inspiring story about attorney Nancy Lugo's kidney donation in the January 1 News. While not many people have the courage to donate an organ while alive, many of us who have signed organ donor cards would like to give someone a second chance at life before our demise.

Here is how. While you are donating blood, you can ask to join the National Marrow Donor Program Registry. Thousands of children and adults have leukemia and other life-threatening blood diseases, and need marrow or stem cells to survive. Most of them cannot find a match...