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Gentle Strength Transplant Stories

Donate Life Connecticut created a series of photos of donors, recipients, and donor families that tell their beautiful, individual stories. The video is set to Bonnie Raitt's song, “Just Like That,” the Grammy Award-winning Song of the Year. The song was inspired by a news segment Bonnie Raitt saw where a woman donated her son's organs after he passed away. The Mom was preparing to meet the man who received her son's heart. In her song, Raitt sings: “I lay my head upon his chest. And I was with my boy again.”

Bonnie Raitt and her team explicitly permitted the use of the music here. We are eternally grateful to her for highlighting the life-saving benefits of organ donation.

To learn more about each person featured in the video, visit our Gentle Strength page.

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Learn more about the types of organ donation and the organs that can be transplanted.

Living donation is an opportunity to save a life while you are still living. Learn more here.

Myths and misinformation exist around organ donation. Learn the facts here.

Transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives.

Meet some organ recipients..

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More than 1,000 people in Connecticut alone are awaiting a life-saving organ donation. They may be your neighbors or co-workers. View the video below to hear how lives have been changed and people just like you have been given a second chance at life.

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Request a Speaker

Donate Life Connecticut representatives and volunteers are always willing to speak about donation. There are many appropriate ways to discuss donation in a public setting, such as during:

  • elementary, middle school, or high school classes

  • teacher's conferences

  • driver's education classes

  • religious group meetings

  • staff meetings

  • civic and service group meetings

  • health fairs

If you are interested in having a DLC representative speak at your event, please contact us. Thank you.

VISION.

This volunteer-based coalition believes that working together with a common voice is the best way to reach the goal of increasing the donor registry, which will inevitably impact the number of transplants that give new life and hope to people suffering from fatal illness or life threatening injury.

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MISSION.

Donate Life Connecticut is dedicated to the purpose of public education and awareness for all Connecticut residents concerning the lifesaving benefits of organ and tissue donation and increasing the number of registered donors.

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Connecticut Donation Statistics

Time Frame
Total Organs
Deceased Organs
Living Organs
2023
533
415
118
2022
193
116
77

You too can save lives. Register to be a donor today!

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