Making the decision to register
To decide whether or not you wish to give life to someone else after you have died is something very personal and it is important that everyone makes their own decision.
Even if you already carry a donor card you should join the NHS Organ Donor Register to ensure your wishes are recorded. Discuss your decision with those closest to you so that they are aware, should the time ever come.
Adding your name to the register will only take a few minutes of your time. But it could save someone else's life.
Here, some of those who have signed up give their reasons for joining the Organ Donor Register.
"I'm married and a mother of three and I try to get as much out of life as I can.
When I die, donating my organs would be my way of giving something back. Hopefully it would allow other people to continue to enjoy life - just as I had."
"Black people are three times more likely to need a kidney transplant but very few of us are on the organ donor register. We should be over-represented as donors, not under-represented. It's important to make the effort to register now."
