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  2. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The demand for donated organs is extremely high due to the fact that a large number of people die while waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. [5] [3] As of 2016, there were fewer registered organ donors than people in need of an organ or tissue transplant. [5]

  3. Organ donation after medical assistance in dying - Wikipedia

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    Organs regularly transplanted include lungs, heart, cornea, pancreas, and kidneys. Modes of donation are an altruistic living donation of a non-vital organ (generally a kidney) and post-mortal organ donation (PMOD). PMOD can be subdivided into donation after brain death (DBD) and donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD). [5]

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally , either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.

  5. Organ donors and recipients celebrate the gift of life at UNMH

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    Sunia would receive a letter from the New Mexico Donor Services a few months after Joel Anthony's organs were donated, informing her that his organs had saved the lives of a 52-year-old father of ...

  6. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    American boy who was killed in Italy. His parents chose to donate his organs. Various October 1994 N/A; organs donated upon death [96] Jon-Erik Hexum (1957–1984) American model and actor. Heart, kidneys and corneas October 1984 N/A; organs donated upon death [97] Virginia Postrel (1960–) Donated kidney to her friend Sally Satel: Kidney ...

  7. Body donation - Wikipedia

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    Body donation, anatomical donation, or body bequest is the donation of a whole body after death for research and education. There is usually no cost to donate a body to science; donation programs will often provide a stipend and/or cover the cost of cremation or burial once a donated cadaver has served its purpose and is returned to the family ...

  8. More than 20,000 people are waiting on California’s organ transplant list for tissue, eye or organ donations, according to Sierra Donor Services, and roughly 78% of them come from communities of ...

  9. National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 - Wikipedia

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    The National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) of 1984 is an Act of the United States Congress that created the framework for the organ transplant system in the country. [1] The act provided clarity on the property rights of human organs obtained from deceased individuals and established a public-private partnership known as Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).