Charity's Six Lungs Sing A Different Tune

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“Some people say that life is not a sprint, it's a marathon…But life is not a marathon, it’s a relay.” These are the words of world-renowned opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick, who has trained three sets of lungs how to breathe in order to sing for us today. Charity has idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, which required her to receive her first bilateral lung transplant at the age of twenty. Six lungs later, Charity is an organ donation advocate and spokesperson for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. She would not be alive today without the charitable actions of strangers. While 90% of Americans believe in organ donation, only 40% are registered donors. Today is your opportunity to register as a donor at http://donatelife.net/. "This is your opportunity to pass the baton."