You also can show your intention to be a donor by signing a Uniform Donor Card. A donor card is printed on the back of your driver's license or state identification card. There also is a donor card in this brochure. In addition, you can show your intention toward organ and tissue donation by being listed in the organ and tissue donor registry through Illinois and Indiana driver's license facilities. As you consider and share your feelings about organ and tissue donation, please use the information in this brochure as a resource for your questions and your conversations with family and friends.
Every effort is made to save a person's life in an accident, injury or disease process.
The organ and tissue donation process does not begin until death occurs and the family is offered the option of donation. Transplant teams are not involved in a patient's care prior to death. At the time of death, families may be asked to consider the donation of organs and tissues. Many donor families say they have found great comfort knowing that other lives can be saved or improved through donation. There is no cost to the donor's family for organ and tissue donation.