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Giving the Gift of Life may lighten the grief of the donor's own family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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