DONATION STATISTICS
- More than 91,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving transplants.
- Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
- An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
- In 2005, there were 7,593 deceased organ donors and 6,895 living organ donors
resulting in 28,108 organ transplants.
- In 2005, U.S. transplant banks made available 44,000 human organs/tissue for transplantation.
- Approximately 1,000,000 tissue transplants are performed annually.

Videos

My name is Peter Schoemann. I am the President of Builder's Stone Publishing, LLC and a member of the Eckstein family. One of the most compelling stories that I have ever heard is the one of the Ecksteins. Not the story of the smart, tough, and talented baseball player.  That is a great story. But the compelling story is of 4 family members, including 3 siblings, going through kidney failure and the family's inspiring reaction. Builder's Stone Publishing, LLC is privileged to provide a piece of the story on this web site. Periodically, we will add videos concerning this and other stories. Our hope is that, after seeing the videos, if you are not already an organ donor, you will become one. Thank you.

David's reaction to his siblings having kidney disease.

How David's experiences have changed him.

David's mom speaks about her family and how they dealt with kidney disease.

David's sister speaks about her reaction to finding out she had kidney disease.

For the latest donation and transplantation data, information and statistics visit the UNOS Website - WWW.UNOS.ORG

For more information on becoming an organ donor, please visit
WWW.DONATELIFE.NET

Tel.: 407 549-5066
E-mail: peterschoemann@buildersstonepublishing.com