And finally, if giving life to another human being wasn’t enough of a reason to donate your blood, here are 10 good reasons from the Some Reasons Blog.  Of the 60% of us who can give blood regularly, only 5% of us do. Clearly there is a need for annual awareness days as every three seconds of every day someone somewhere needs blood to survive.

If we don’t donate – and those of us with more exotic blood types should consider this even more – then people will die when they really shouldn’t have. It’s that simple.