Chicago White Sox Sign Autographs to Support Organ Donation
April 18, 2006: James R. Thompson Center, Chicago
Il. Members of the Chicago White Sox organization sign autographs and witness
the singing of organ donor cards. Chicago White Sox broadcaster, Ed Farmer,
underwent a kidney transplant in 1991. Illinois Secretary of State, Jessie
White was on hand to welcome and discuss the organ donor program to White Sox
fans.
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Mark Buehrle, Chris Widger and Ed Farmer in
attendance while an overflow crowd filled out First -Person Consent Organ/Tissue
Donor forms. On Jan 1, 2006, Illinois joined several other states in
implementing a First-Person Consent Organ/Tissue donor Registry, which makes a
person's wishes to be an organ/tissue donor legally binding. Additional
witnesses or family consent is no longer required for donation to
occur.
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