Donate
Life
YOU
HAVE THE POWER TO DONATE LIFE
Be
an organ, eye and tissue donor.
You
have the power to give someone the most
precious
gift in the world — Life.
Organ,
eye and tissue transplants offer patients a new
You
have the power to change someone’s world by
being a donor. It’s
about living.
It’s about Life.
Transplantation
is one of the most remarkable
success stories in the
history of medicine. It provides
hope to thousands of
people with organ failure. In
addition,
transplanted tissue offers hundreds of thousands of people
active and renewed lives. But
transplantation
requires the commitment of organ,
eye and tissue donors. Unfortunately,
the need for
donors is much greater
than the number of people
who
actually donate.
FACTS
ABOUT ORGAN, EYE
• People of
all ages and medical histories should
consider themselves
potential donors. Your
medical condition at
the time of death will
determine what organs
and tissue can be donated.
• Donated
organs, including the heart, pancreas,
kidneys, liver, lungs, and intestines, restore life.
• Tissue is
needed to replace bone, tendons and
ligaments lost to
trauma, cancer and other
diseases in order to
improve strength; mobility, and independence.
Corneas are needed to
restore sight. Skin
grafts help burn patients heal and often mean the difference between life and
death. Heart valves repair cardiac defects and damage.
• All major
religions support organ/eye and tissue donation as an unselfish act of charity.
• There is
no cost to the donor’s family or estate for
donation. The
donor family pays only for medical
expenses before death
and for funeral expenses.
• It is
illegal to buy or sell organs and tissue for
transplantation in the
United States
.
• It is
possible to donate life to others as a living kidney or partial
liver, lung, or pancreas donor.
Visit www.donatelife.net
for more information.
How
the donation process works
Your
commitment to donation will not interfere with your medical care. Organ,
eye and tissue donation
becomes an option only
after all life-saving efforts
have been made and
death has been declared.
Consent
for donation is confirmed, and your family is asked to participate
in the process by providing
your medical history.
Surgical
procedures are used to recover donated organs, eyes and tissue.
The body is always treated
with great care and
respect.
Donation
should not delay or change funeral arrangements. An
open casket service is possible.
Who
receives donated organs and tissue
Organs
are distributed based upon medical information like blood type, body size, and
tissue
type matching through a
national computer network operated by the United Network for
Organ Sharing (UNOS). It
is illegal to distribute organs based on
non-medical information such
as wealth, citizenship,
or celebrity status.
Tissue
is distributed based upon patient need,
availability, and
medical criteria.
STATISTICS
ON ORGAN, EYE
•Each year
more than 7,000 deceased donors
make possible more than
25,000 organ.
transplants. In
addition, there are more than 7,000 transplants from living donors.
•There are
also 25,000 tissue donors and 40,000
cornea donors annually,
providing more than
900,000 tissue and
corneal transplants.
•The need
for donated organs, eye and tissue
continues to grow. More
than 89,000 men,
women, and children
currently await life-saving
organ transplants. Sadly,
an average of 17 people die each day due to a
lack of available organs.
•Every
donor can save and. enhance the lives of up
to 5O people.
YOU
HAVE THE POWER TO DONATE LIFE —
REGISTER
TO BE AN ORGAN AND TISSUE
DID
YOU KNOW?
•Many
people believe that if they carry a donor card or at one time
designated “donation” on
their driver’s
license they have already
registered to be a
donor. This is not true for Arizona
residents.
•The
creation of an official donor registry was passed by legislation
in 2002. Prior to this, there
was never an official
way to register your wishes
to be an organ and
tissue donor in Arizona.
•The
Arizona Donor Registry provides
centralized place to
document your wishes to
save
and enhance lives through organ and
tissue donation.
•To
register to be a donor, sign up at
www.DonateLifeAZ.org
or call 1-800-94-DONOR for a form.
•The
Arizona Donor Registry acts as legal consent for donation and does
not require additional family consent.
•Signing up
to be a donor is easy and takes less
than five minutes. Your
decision and action
today may mean a
tomorrow for someone else.
To
learn more about organ and tissue donation please
visit
www.DonateLifeAZ.org
or
call Donor
Network
of Arizona
at 1-800-94-DONOR.
DONOR
NETWORK OF ARIZONA
A Donate Life Organization
1-80O-94-DONOR
www.dnaz.org
201 W. Coolidge
Phoenix
,
AZ
85013
Donor
Network of Arizona (DNA) is the federally
designated,
non-profit organ procurement organization
and
tissues to those in need. In addition to recovering
•Community
education through presentations,
participation in health
fairs, events and donor registry
drives.
•Hospital /
Healthcare education Seminars and
Hospital Donor Program
Development.
•Donor
family aftercare programs providing guidance
and direction to those
who have made the decision to
Donate Life.
If
you would like to request a speaker for your school,
To
make a charitable contribution to benefit organ and
You
Have The Power To Donate Life
Sign
Up To Be An Organ Donor
www.DonateLifeAZ.org
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