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National
Donate Life Month
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Why Donate?
Because you may save up to 8 lives through organ donation and enhance
many others through tissue donation.
Last year alone, organ donors made more than 28,000 transplants
possible. Another one million people received cornea and other tissue
transplants that helped them recover from trauma, bone damage, spinal
injuries, burns, hearing impairment and vision loss.
Unfortunately, thousands die every year waiting for a donor organ that
never comes. You have the power to change that.
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Learn the Facts About Organ & Tissue
Donations |
These facts may help you better understand organ, eye, and
tissue donation:
Fact: Anyone, regardless of age or medical history, can sign up
to be a donor. The transplant team will determine at an individual's
time of death whether donation is possible.
Fact: Most major religions in the United States support organ
donation and consider donation as the final act of love and generosity
toward others.
Fact: If you are sick or injured and admitted to a hospital, the
number one priority is to save your life.
Fact: When matching donor organs to recipients, the computerized
matching system considers issues such as the severity of illness, blood
type, time spent waiting, other important medical information, and
geographic location. The recipient's financial or celebrity status or
race does not figure in.
Fact: An open casket funeral is usually possible for organ, eye,
and tissue donors. Through the entire donation process, the body is
treated with care, respect, and dignity.
Fact: There is no cost to donors or their families for organ or
tissue donation.
Fact: Every state provides access to a donor registry where its
residents can indicate their donation decision.
Fact: Federal law prohibits buying and selling organs in the U.S.
Violators are punishable by prison sentences and fines.
Fact: People can recover from comas, but not brain death. Coma
and brain death are not the same. Brain death is final.
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