CLEVELAND — Dozens of people are rappelling down a Cleveland skyscraper to raise awareness on organ donation.

This is the fourth year for Lifebanc’s Over the Edge event, and Tiffany Lang’s third time to make the trip down the 23-story Oswald building.


What You Need To Know

  • Over the Edge helps raise awareness about Lifebanc and the nonprofit's mission to provide second chances at life through organ and tissue donation

  • A Cleveland Clinic medical intensive care unit nurse is one of 65 people signed up to rappel down the side of a 23-story building for the event 

  • Right now, there are about 3,000 people in Ohio in need of transplants

“I suppose I am an adrenaline junkie,” said Lang, nurse manager for Cleveland Clinic’s medical intensive care unit.

She took on the role seven years ago, and in that time. has cared for some of the sickest patients in the country.

“Oftentimes, we are the difference between life and death,” she said.

It’s a challenging environment, but one Lang said she wouldn’t change. She’s worked in ICUs since she was 19.

“We often meet patients on their very worst day,” she said. “We meet families and their loved ones on the very worst day of their life.”

But Lang lives for the chance to make those days better. She’s seen the impact organ donations can have on families.

“I’ve known several people in my lifetime who have chronic organ specific diseases that needed lung transplants, kidney transplants,” she said.

She works as a liaison, facilitating communication between families and Lifebanc and managing the transplant process.

“It’s another piece that just fills my cup up in a career that can take a lot,” she said.

Which is why she keeps strapping on a helmet to go Over the Edge for Lifebanc, to help the nonprofit organ, tissue and recovery organization provide more second chances at life.

“It is the most beautiful thing in a family that could have been devastated or would have been ripped apart, has gotten 15, 20, 25 more years of joy,” she said. “And you can’t even measure what you’ve given to the world at that point.”

Lang is one of 65 people signed up to go Over the Edge Wednesday.

Right now, there are about 3,000 people in Ohio in need of transplants. You can join the Ohio donor registry at the BMV when you renew your driver’s license or by clicking here.