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Some Facts:
• Currently, approximately 100,000 men, women and children are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
• Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants, however, 19 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs.
• Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people.• 90% of Americans say they support donation, but only 30% know the essential steps to take to be a donor.
• Ensuring your decision to give the life-saving organ donation gift will be carried out is as simple as:
• Registering with your state donor registry
• Designating your decision on your driver's license when you obtain or renew your license.
• Signing a donor card now until you can designate your donation decision on your driver's license or join a donor registry.
• Talking to your family now about your donation decision so they understand your wish to be an organ and tissue donor before a crisis occurs so they can serve as your advocate for donation.
Helpful Links:
www.organdonor.gov/
Organ donation: Don't let myths stand in your way
www.mayoclinic.com/health/organ-donation/FL00077
www.unos.org/HowYouCanHelp/promoteOrganDonation/
www.unos.org/resources/glossary.asp
www.donatelife.net/
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