The California Transplant Donor Network, and most OPOs around the country, require family consent for donation. Share your decision to donate with your loved ones so they can honor your wish. An average of three to five organs are recovered from all donors. Transplantation has proved to be a more cost-effective treatment for kidney failure than dialysis. Anyone, at any age, could potentially become an organ and tissue donor.
All major religions approve of donation.
Donor families pay none of the costs of donation. They pay only for the medical care associated with trying to save the person's life and funeral expenses. Donation neither disfigures the body nor delays funeral plans. Donation does not interfere with the quality of medical care you receive to save your life. Organs are not recovered until after a person is declared brain dead, which is the legal declaration of death.