Donate Life 2016

Good facts to know:

• Anyone is a potential donor

• Organ donors are only considered donors once they are deceased. Every medical measure will be taken to keep you alive.

• If you are waiting for an organ the main priorities to receiving an organ are: the severity of your illness, time on the wait list, blood type just to name a few but NOT your financial status or celebrity status.

• There is not cost to the donor or their family for organ or tissue donation.

• Donor information is confidential to the recipient unless the donor's family agrees to releasing information.

• Approximately 124,000 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplant.

• As of May 2015 about 2100 pediatric patients needed organs donated

How can you help spread the word about organ donation? Here are a few ideas:

1. Purchase a donation license plate http://donatelife.net/license-plates/

2. Like Donate life on Facebook and twitter

3. Request brochures to give friends and colleagues

To watch a video on how Donation and Transplantation works go to:

http://donatelife.net/understanding-donation/

Types of donations

Tissue donation: skin, bone and heart valves

Cornea Donation

Organ donation such as kidneys, pancreas, liver, lungs, heart, intestinal organs

Ling donations-donor is still alive-kidney, lobe of lung, partial liver

Good websites:

www.unos.org

organdonor.gov

Donatelife.net