Organ Donor- Ron Flick

By: Lauren Rembold & Dylan Lu 11/30/18

Photography By: Lauren Rembold

Ron Flick shares his personal story with students stressing the importance of organ donation.

Up, Saving Lives

By: Lauren Rembold & Dylan Lu

Picture By: Lauren Rembold

On October 17th and 18th, Ron Flick, an organ donor and representative for CORE (Center for Organ Recovery & Education), came to speak to all the 9th grade health classes and the anatomy class about organ donation, what it means, and how it can help people.

“Ron Flick’s presentation about organ donation is beneficial to my classes because Ron was an organ donor himself and because it answers questions some young people may have about organ donation.” - Mrs. Oliver

When you get your driver's license, they will be asking you if you would like to be an organ donor. It is a frightful question and quite morbid to be frank, but it is a potential gift worth considering.

Every 10 minutes, another person is added to the national transplant waitlist. Even worse, 20 people will die every day on average waiting. Trying to stop this problem is living donor Ron Flick. Currently, there are roughly 118,000 Americans on organ transplant waiting lists and about one-third of them will die due to not receiving the vital organ they need.

“I think we should all consider signing up [for organ donation] because I’ve seen how it can improve people’s lives and even add years onto their lives to be able to do the things they were unable to do without the transplant.” -Ron Flick

Flick donated his kidney many years ago. Ron’s brother needed a kidney and he made the decision to save his brothers life and give him a kidney, which in Ron’s words, added ten