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EU Facts and Figures. "Key facts and figures on EU organ donation and transplantation" , EU Directorate General for Health & Consumers, London, 27 October 2005. Retrieved on 31 March 2012.
The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in the United States, established (42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
Organ donation is seen as a good deed. Hasmukh Velji Shah of the World Council of Hindus stated "The import issue for Hindu is that which sustains life should be accepted and promoted as Dharma (righteous living). Organ donation is an integral part of our living." [12]
Organ donation, however, has met resistance, and involuntary organ donation is illegal under Chinese law, [24] as it is against Chinese tradition and culture, which attach symbolic life affirming importance to the kidney and heart. [25] [26] China is not alone in encountering donation difficulties; demand outstrips supply in most countries.
A Google search for organ donation after MAiD produces as its first hit a publication by Wilkinson containing a controversial plea for MAiD by removing the organs and not separating the MAiD procedure from the organ donation process. [33] This approach is considered illegal around the world, but has attracted a lot of attention. [34]
The Little Yellow Duck Project is a UK-based international project started in 2014 to raise consciousness of the need for organ, stem cell and blood donors and to encourage small random acts of kindness. Participants are invited to knit, crochet or otherwise create small yellow ducks and then leave them in public places to be found by strangers.
The National Transplant Organization (Spanish: Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, ONT) is an independent coordinating agency of the Spanish Ministry of Health responsible for developing the competencies related with provision and clinical utilization of organs, tissues and cells.