April is National Donate Life Month

Did you know?

• More than 103,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list.

• Every eight minutes another person is added to the transplant waiting list.

• Each day 17 people die waiting for an organ transplant.

• Every 11 minutes, a lifesaving transplant is performed.

• The oldest organ donor in the U.S. was a 98-yearold from Missouri.

• The first-person authorization registry upholds an individual’s right to make a decision.

• Regarding organ and tissue donation, no one may overturn another individual’s decision.