Organ donations spike after new addition to Facebook Timeline

Facebook,CBS/Donate Life

(CBS News) Organ donations saw a spike after Facebook added a feature to Timeline Tuesday that allows users to register to become organ donors. Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their timeline.

Results from the launch are staggering. Within hours of Facebook's announcement, the registry Donate Life California reported donor signups increased by 800 percent compared with Monday. By 5 p.m. PT, the number of signups grew by 1,400 percent, the organization reported on their Facebook page.

Graphic of the spike in donor registration after Facebook launched its new Timeline feature.

/ Facebook/Donate Life California

"This graphic of the registration spike today on the donateLIFEcalifornia.org registry says it all - a nearly 1400% [sic] increase as of 5 p.m. today. Thank you, FACEBOOK, for offering hope to people on the waiting list! Phenomenal!" the organization shared on their website.

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea, as did talks with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student.

Donate Life America, the nonprofit that's partnering with Facebook, reports that over 112,000 Americans are waiting for organs, with 18 deaths every day from a lack of available organs.

Facebook is the world's largest social network. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has 901 million users and reported $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011. The company filed for its IPO on February 1, with Morgan Stanley as its lead underwriter and the ticker symbol "FB."

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78% of America identify themselves as Christian.


What the Bible Says About Organ Transplants
http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/what-the-bible-says-about-organ-transplants-417
The statistics show that the supply of organs and tissues is not meeting the current demand.
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All arguments for permitting them on biblical grounds have been demonstrated as sound and often irrefutable. Some scholars even promote this practice as not simply permissible but obligatory, based on the biblical mandate to love one another.


John 15:
12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.


How to Avoid Funeral Costs, Donate Your Body and Get a Free Cremation
http://www.ehow.com/video_2194148_costs-donate-body-free-cremation.html#ixzz1LdRSDC44

How to Donate Your Body to Science
http://www.ehow.com/how_110893_donate-body-science.html


Luke 9:
59And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

60Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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Thank you Facebook. It's amazing how it's a total moral bankruptcy of the major religions in this country that none of them are asking their preists, reverends and rabbis to mention from their pulpets every week that everyone healthy enough should sign up as a potential organ doner. Here is a subject that is 100% high morality, 100% pro-life, 100% effective, and 100% noncontriversal. And what do we hear from all the major religions...............NOTHING !!!