Vic Snyder Quotes

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.

I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

Who transplanted sustains

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

I got a piece of a dead person's ligament in my body.

Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.

Imagine being the parent of a six or seven-year-old who needs a transplant and there is no match. I understand now what that means.