It is a sad fact, however, that with the improved surgical techniques and with 50 years of eye-banking experience, there are not enough donors to provide the corneas for those in need of a transplant. One does not have to have perfect vision to be a donor. Only a transmissible disease would prevent donation. Infants to the elderly can give sight to another. Informing your next of kin of your desire to do so will make it more likely to happen when that critical time comes.
Physicians are reluctant to remove corneal tissue or other organs without consent of next of kin.
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