I am writing as a follow-up to my letter of Dec. 13.

I am now a liver transplant recipient. I had my transplant operation on Feb. 4. I am now also a volunteer for the New England Organ Bank.

I am responding to a reader who asked, “How many people who need organs are acceptable to be donors if they should finally die?”

Everyone should consider themselves potential donors. The decision as to what a person might donate will be made at the time of death. There are so many things that people might still be able to donate. Even if they could not donate hearts, kidneys, lungs, livers or such, they possibly could donate tissue and associated tendons, blood vessels, heart valves, skin and corneas.

As a living transplant recipient, I can say it is truly a gift of life. Without my transplant, I might not be alive to continue the volunteer work I do.

I am not the only person who considers a transplant to be a gift of life. Ask any recipient of organs and they will say the same thing.

There is the man from New Gloucester who had a double lung transplant on Feb. 23; also, the 25-year-old woman from Lisbon who just had a double lung transplant in June.

I urge everyone to sign up to be a donor. It can be done with the Department of Motor Vehicles, or with the New England Organ Bank online.

Give the gift of life.

Gordon McLaren, Norway