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Work through registration steps and the family conversation for organ donation, with the opt-in or opt-out rule that applies where you live.
Whether an organ donation wish is actually carried out comes down to two things: a record on the official registry and a family who already knows the decision. This checklist sets out the registration route and the family conversation step by step, and tells you whether the place you live runs an opt-in system, where nothing happens unless you register, or an opt-out system, where adults are treated as willing unless they record a refusal. It is informational and submits nothing anywhere.
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Shows the consent system, registry and legal framework for India, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Spain rather than one generic answer.
Tracks the registry entry and the family conversation independently, because either one alone leaves a gap.
The checklist runs in your browser; registration happens on your own national or state registry, never here.
Tell your family. Even where first-person authorisation is legally binding, such as under the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act in the United States, specialist staff still speak to the family — and in India a pledge is not by itself sufficient, since the family is asked to consent at the time.
Under opt-in you are not a donor unless you register. Under opt-out, or deemed consent, adults are treated as willing unless they record a decision not to donate. Wales moved to deemed consent in 2015, England in May 2020, Scotland in March 2021 and Northern Ireland in June 2023.
Yes. Most registries let you record which organs and tissues you are willing to donate and exclude anything you are not comfortable with — for example agreeing to organs but not corneas. The exclusion is recorded alongside your registration.
Rarely at the point of registering. Suitability is assessed medically at the time, and organs and tissues are used from donors across a wide age range, so most registries encourage people to sign up and let clinicians decide later. Ask your own transplant authority or doctor about a specific condition.