How to Sign Up
Be an organ, eye, and tissue donor
Anyone can make the decision to be a donor after life by signing up at the DMV or on this website. Donate Life America manages the National Donor Registry. When you sign up, your decision is legally binding, relieving your family of the burden of making this decision for you at the time of your death. If someone is not on the registry, family members may also authorize donation when a loved one dies.
Sign Up Online
It's fast, simple, and personalized
When you sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor online, you are making a legally binding authorization that adds your name to the Donate Life America list of registered donors. Additionally, you can be more specific about your preferences than you can at the DMV. You can choose which organs or tissues you want to donate. Plus, you can update your online registration at any time online.
Sign Up Through the DMV
When you say “yes” to donation at the DMV, the red heart on your license shows that you have made the lifesaving decision to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor. This is a legally binding authorization that adds your name to the North Carolina list of registered donors.
Sign Up on Your Apple Device
You can sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor right on your iPhone! When you sign up in the Health app, your information is securely added to the National Donate Life Registry, managed by Donate Life America.
Sign Up Through MyChart
In many hospital systems, patients can sign up to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor through MyChart on a desktop or mobile device. Any adult 18 or older in the United States can sign up, regardless of their medical history.
A patient’s decision to sign up remains completely private and is not visible to their healthcare team. Only trained donation professionals can access this information through the National Donate Life Registry, and only when it’s needed to honor the patient’s decision at the time of their passing.
Check with your healthcare provider to learn more.
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Your decision today could save or change the lives of so many people
Every 9 minutes another person is added to the national waiting list
17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant
75 or more lives can be saved and healed by one organ, eye, and tissue donor!
More than 100,000 women, children, and men in the US are waiting for lifesaving transplants
More than 4,000 North Carolinians are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant
Data provided by UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing)
