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Pennsylvania exceeds 5 million registered organ and tissue donors

Every organ donor has the potential to save eight lives and help even more through tissue donation.

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — On Thanksgiving Day of 2008, Missy Sweitzer’s life changed forever.

“We got that phone call early in the morning, Thanksgiving morning, that no parent ever wants to get,” she recalled.

Her 20-year-old son, Zac, was hit by a drunk driver on I-83 in York Township.

He was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury and declared brain dead just a few days later.

Zac Sweitzer was a registered organ donor. (Fox 43)

His mom remembers when Zac got his driver’s license.

She was at the DMV with him when he made the decision to become an organ donor.

Click here to learn how Zac’s decision to donate saved lives and the importance of becoming an organ donor


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