April is National Donate Life Month. Here are five reasons to consider checking the box to become a donor.
While 2021 proved to be a record-breaking year for organ donation in the U.S., many people are still hesitant to register to become a donor. Nationwide, only about 48% of people are registered to be organ donors, according to LifeSource. That’s despite surveys showing that 95% of people in the U.S. support organ donation.
More than 106,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Every nine minutes, another name is added to the waiting list, and an average of 17 waiting people die every day.A single organ donor can save up to eight lives. Tissue donors can help heal up to 75 people. People who donate their corneas can restore sight to two people. People are eligible to donate across the age spectrum.
“Because the liver continuously regenerates, livers from older donors — even into age 80 and beyond — may be eligible to donate,” says Julie Heimbach, M.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Clinical Regeneration in Minnesota.
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