Donate Your Organs
FACTS
- Over 120,072 people are waiting for organs to be donated.
- 77 people receive organ transplants every day.
- As many as 50 people’s lives can be saved or improved from each organ and tissue donor.
- There is no age limit on who can donate.
- Most family members are not aware of on another’s willingness to be a donor, even if it is indicated on their driver’s license.
TAKE ACTION TODAY
- Declare on your driver’s license your wish to donate tissue and organs.
- Carry a donor card in your wallet.
- Sign up on your state’s donor registry today.
- Inform your family, loved ones, and physician of your decision.
YOU MATTER
Eighteen people die every day waiting for a transplant. Because more people need transplants than there are organs available, register your organs on the donor registry. In addition to indicating your wishes on your driver’s license, make your family members aware of your decision. Saving a life by donating a heart, lung, or kidney or allowing someone to see again through your cornea may be the most significant gift you ever give…and you may not even be aware you are giving it.
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I remember when I first applied for my license and my mother begged me not to register myself as an organ donor. I did it anyway. That little red life-changing symbol is like a tatoo I will never remove.
As a a organ “receiver” I am asking everyone to donate their organs! I am living proof that donating your organs saves lives! If I did not receive the double lung transplant I would not be here today, and that was over ten years ago! That is ten years I would never have if not for the transplant.
I have had the orange dot on my liscense for 20 years now. Last year I had to have a liver transplant and thank God a young man had an orange dot too.