Myths about Organ Donation

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:23 Doctors will not try hard to save your life if you are a donor
0:42 Your religion does not allow organ donation
0:52 You can't donate if you are under 18
1:12 If you have a medical condition, you cannot be a registered organ donor
1:38 My family will have to pay for the cost of organ donation
1:59 Rich and famous people get organs before others on the transplant list
2:29 Organ donation mutilates the body and prevents open casket funeral
Organ donation is the process when a person allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.
Donation may be for research or, more commonly, healthy transplantable organs and tissues may be donated to be transplanted into another person.[1][2]
Common transplantations include kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas.[1] Some organs and tissues can be donated by living donors, such as a kidney or part of the liver, part of the pancreas, part of the lungs or part of the intestines,[3] but most donations occur after the donor has died.[1]
In 2019, Spain had the highest donor rate in the world at 46.91 per million people, followed by the US (36.88 per million), Croatia (34.63 per million), Portugal (33.8 per million), and France (33.25 per million).[4]
As of February 2, 2019, there were 120,000 people waiting for life-saving organ transplants in the US.[5] Of these, 74,897 people were active candidates waiting for a donor.[5] While views of organ donation are positive, there is a large gap between the numbers of registered donors compared to those awaiting organ donations on a global level.[6]
To increase the number of organ donors, especially among underrepresented populations, current approaches include the use of optimized social network interventions, exposing tailored educational content about organ donation to target social media users.[7] Every year August 13 is observed as World Organ Donation Day to raising awareness about the importance of organ donation.[8]