Stories of Hope

Our goal at Donate Life Northwest is to educate and encourage people to sign up on their state donor registry. Why? To offer hope to the parents of an 11-year-old boy given six months to live unless he receives a heart transplant. To give grieving families the knowledge their loved one left a selfless legacy. To join in celebration of lives saved and sight and mobility restored because a person's decision to donate was known and honored at their time of death. Because organ, eye and tissue donation is about one human being offering the gift of life to another. Submit Your Story
Red-haired man wearing a red plaid shirt and smiling with a smiling brunette woman wearing a black coat standing in front of a lit glass sculture

Curtis Newcomer

In 2020, while most people were concerned about COVID, Curt was facing liver failure and being rejected by multiple transplant programs. But then, all the pieces came together and saved his life.

Cyndi Moody

Lung disease slowed Cyndi down, but it didn't stop her. Now, with the precious gift of donated lungs, Cyndi is powering into a healthy future.

Damian Delaney

A liver donor, a teacher, and an athlete, Damian is living proof that becoming a living donor doesn't have to slow you down.

Dana Clayton

Dana’s journey with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) started in 1994 with exhaustion and terrible back pain. Thanks to her living kidney donor, she's a whole new woman.

Daniel Indra

It’s been one of the saving graces that my husband and I have – knowing that our son is still alive, and he is alive in four people.

Dash Dennis

Dash Dennis has big plans for the future – work, travel, and building relationships. But first, he needs to have a kidney transplant – his third.

David Oliphant

With a four-generation legacy of cornea and tissue donors, David's family knows the pain of loss, but they also know the healing balm of giving the gifts of life, sight, and health during their time of loss.

David Terry

David Terry

David’s lung donor gave him back life and health – and he’s shouting his thanks literally from the mountaintops.

Black teenage boy wearing a white basketball uniform that reads BEND 10 and he is holding a basketball in his right hand.

Donovan Williams

At the age of 14, Donovan “Dono” Williams gave an extraordinary gift to five strangers: life.

Professional headshot of a smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair

Dresden Skees-Gregory

Dresden needed a strong, healthy body to sustain her busy life. Thanks to a tissue donor, now she has two strong knees to stand on.