Organ donation talk is a bit off topic on a sushi website, but sushiordeath.com would like to be a part of the world wide blogger campaign for organ donor awareness.

Are you an organ donor? How about your family? Do you know if they want to be organ donors? Have you talked about it? Talk about it and sign up as one as soon as possible. Then the body parts that might suddenly be of not much use to you - knock wood - but that still healthy organ might save someone else’s life. That is a fantastic gift - you might play the most important role in someone else’s life.

In Australia, more than 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants. In Latin America, more than 50,000. In Europe and the United States, more than 170,000. In China, more than 2 million. In Africa, there isn’’t enough organization to really know. Without an organ transplant, these people will die.

Sushi will most probably not lead to your organs failing you (that is if you are not eating Fugu or pufferfish OR are a Russian spy named Litvinenko and whole countries are hunting you), but you should still let your friends and family know that in the worst case scenario you would want your organs to be used to help others.

Relevant links:

Organ donors in Norway

The U.S. government

The United Network for Organ Sharing

MatchingDonors.com

Donate Life

LifeQuest Florida

BC Transplant Society

GiveLife.ca information about organ and tissue donation.

Transplant.ca list of organ and tissue transplantation facts and statistics

BlogCatalog Community Organ Donation Awareness Campaign