PRINCETON: Student talks about organ donations

   Veronica Nagle, a junior at Princeton High School and a member of local Girl Scout Troop 71204, organized several presentations on March 30 to educate classmates about National Donate Life Month.
   Nationally, more than 110,000 people wait for a life-saving transplant — close to 5,000 of them in New Jersey. Nearly 6,000 people die a year – about 18 per day – awaiting the gift of life. April, associated with renewal and spring, has been established as National Donate Life Month.
   Ms. Nagle received a tissue transplant to repair a soccer injury and has committed herself to helping students understand the bigger picture about donating.
   At the presentation, Ms. Nagle was joined by Pierre C. Embrey, a representative from NJ Share, and Ed Cummings, a recent recipient of a kidney and pancreas transplant.
   Mr. Cummings explained that his hero was a man from Jamaica who came to live in the United States. As a direct result of that man’s generosity to register as a donor, Mr. Cummings can be here for his family, including his two children.
   Ms. Nagle encouraged her classmates to make one of the most important life-saving decisions they can make, become a registered donor.