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Recipients, donor family members, and community leaders are joining together from across central and southeast Ohio in an effort to not let another chair go empty as they ‘Take a Seat for Life’ in the green chair Thursday, April 18, 2013 on NBC4i.com.

Volunteers will Take a Seat for Life on NBC4 so another chair won’t go empty.

This day-long sit-in is designed to encourage people to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor in the Ohio Donor Registry, and celebrate Donate Life Month.

The online webcast will feature volunteers taking a seat every 15 minutes from 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. to share their connection to donation and transplantation.  In addition, during the live evening news broadcasts from 5-6:30 p.m., NBC4 will elevate the cause with taped stories of recipient gratitude and organ donors’ acts of sacrifice. The day will end at 7 p.m. with the Wexner Medical Center’s transplant show special, “Your Gift, Their Hope,” and a Call 4 panel, staffed by donation and transplantation professionals from 5-7:30 p.m.

This year, a live chat function has been added under the webcast video online allowing viewers to connect with and ask questions of those sitting in the green chair in real time. Be sure to show support for your green chair hero!

A schedule of those individuals who will be seated in the chair is below.

Be sure to tune in to the webcast by clicking here  and check back every 15 minutes to hear a new donation story. You can also follow along throughout the day on Lifeline of Ohio’s Facebook page.