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In October of 2011, Helene Campbell was told of the news that would change her life forever: she had a fatal lung disease known as advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. For months, the disease had unknowingly been slowly taking her breath away, and would continue to do so until she underwent her successful operation the following April. Immediately, doctors gave her the option to be put on a list for a double lung transplant so she could live to be twenty-five years old. Although her story is one of the more fortunate ones, this is not always the case for the millions of men, women and children that have been affected by this heedless epidemic. The reality is, Canada is one of the worst countries in regards to organ donation among the other Western World countries; nearly two thousand Canadians register for a new organ each year, but only half of the men, women and children on the recipient list may get one in the next twelve months. 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