Ultimate donation

California, the most populous state, has one of the nation’s lowest organ donor registration percentages.

According to a 2019 sample of the U.S. population, 90% of adults support organ donation but only 60% are actually signed up as donors. The DMV began asking driver’s license and ID card holders if they wanted to join the state’s official Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry on July 1, 2006. By the end of that year, 1 million people had signed on to the secure and confidential database. As of Oct. 30, 19.7 million Californians had signed up since 2006, but a 2023 survey showed California had the second-lowest adult organ registration rate (31.2%) behind Georgia (32.8%). Some states, such as Indiana and Colorado, have rates greater than 65%. Not all s

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