{"id":746,"date":"2021-09-25T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:02:23","slug":"telling-the-stories-any-way-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/25\/telling-the-stories-any-way-we-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the stories, any way we can…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"LuciaChildren’s Liver Disease Foundation Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n

You\u2019ve signed the organ donor register or ticked the boxes when you applied for a driver\u2019s licence.\u00a0 That\u2019s excellent.\u00a0 And maybe you live in England, Wales, Scotland or Jersey, where the opt-out system for organ donation is already active.\u00a0 Over 90% of us say we would be willing to be organ donors. \u00a0But still only about half of us have had a conversation with our families about organ donation. Even less have told our families what our wishes are. That figure counts because our families are the ones who will have the final word. And you, or anyone in your circle of family and friends, are much more likely to need a transplant than become a donor. Think about that.<\/p>\n

There are lots of groups and campaigns and initiatives at all kinds of levels trying to encourage us to think about it and let people know whatever our decisions may be.\u00a0 Perhaps you know \u201cSomeone You Loved\u201d, the song by Lewis Capaldi and the video with his distant cousin, the former Dr Who (otherwise known as Peter Capaldi).\u00a0 The song was six months in the writing and during that process, Lewis Capaldi became increasingly aware of organ donation and the need for more donors.\u00a0 Scotland was discussing the opt-out system at the time, so it was in the news.<\/p>\n

He connected with Live Life, Give Life, an organ donation awareness-raising charity set up in 2006 by two amazing young women, Emily Thackray and Emma Harris, who were both affected by Cystic Fibrosis (CF). \u00a0Some of their friends, also affected by CF, had already died.\u00a0 Emily died following a second lung transplant in 2014. Emma continues with the cause.\u00a0 Live Life, Give Life and the two Capaldis, created a beautiful music track and a powerful video that brought organ donation into the minds and hearts of many.<\/p>\n

This week, Live Life, Give Life, and many other groups like them, have been all over social media, telling stories, showing photographs and raising awareness.\u00a0 You may have seen many more stories in the press or seen buildings \u2013 even the stones of the Giant\u2019s Causeway in Northern Ireland \u2013 floodlit in pink for Organ Donation Week.<\/p>\n

In no logical order, here\u2019s a way to explore some more of those stories:<\/p>\n

Live Life Give Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Share your wishes<\/a><\/p>\n

Transplant Sport<\/a><\/p>\n

Donor Family Network<\/a><\/p>\n

Orgamites<\/a> \u00a0(presenting organ donation for 6\u201311-year-olds)<\/p>\n

Organ Donation Northern Ireland\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Donate for Daithi<\/a><\/p>\n

And, of course, Live Loudly Donate Proudly<\/a>.\u00a0 All because it matters.\u00a0 It\u2019s personal.\u00a0 As personal as life.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s that song we mentioned.\u00a0 Go on, have a listen\u2026Someone You Loved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon You\u2019ve signed the organ donor register or ticked the boxes when you applied for a driver\u2019s licence.\u00a0 That\u2019s excellent.\u00a0 And maybe you live in England, Wales, Scotland or Jersey, where the opt-out system for organ donation is already active.\u00a0 Over 90% of us say we would be willing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news-and-events","category-personal-story","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phtpid-c2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}