My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year
I want to raise awareness that you don't have donate an organ to save lives. Blood cancer patients all over the world are frantically looking for bone marrow and blood cell donors. The chances for a match are very low, but if they find one the chances of success are high. So you can understand the desperation.<p>The thing is, an actual bone marrow extraction is only required in 10% of all cases, most of the time you only have to donate blood cells. It's painless and pretty much non-intrusive.<p>Check out <a href="https://www.dkms.de/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.dkms.de/en</a> or <a href="https://bethematch.org/" rel="nofollow">https://bethematch.org/</a> for more information about the subject. Costs for the match test are unfortunately not covered by health insurance here in Germany, but it's only 30€ or something in that order.<p>If you ever wanted to save a life, get tested.