Each organ and tissue donor saves or improves the lives of as many as 50 people.

All people regardless of age should consider themselves potential organ and tissue donors.

Most major religions in the USA support organ donation and consider donation as the final act of love and generosity toward others.

There is no cost to donors or their families for organ or tissue donation.

Last year alone, organ donors made more than 28,000 transplants possible.

People can recover from comas, but not brain death. Coma and brain death are not the same. Brain death is final.

Every state maintains a donor registry where its residents can indicate their donation decision.