We've chose the Transplant Resource Center, an organ donation center, to be the recipient of this year's benefit.

After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many."

"Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.

When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired firefighter and Christopher had seen and heard a lot about accidents and what happens to people, and he was very aware of what problems there are and that is something he wanted to do. So he is still helping people.

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

While the first human organ transplant was performed 50 years ago, it was the arrival of the drug cyclosporine that vastly improved transplant survival rates and helped make transplantation the almost routine procedure it is today. That development offered hope to thousands of patients suffering from failing kidneys, livers, and hearts.