The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands<unk>  is the process when a person allows an<unk>  of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin. Donation may be for research or, more commonly, healthy transplantable<unk> s and tissues may be donated to be transplanted into another person. Common transplantations include kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, bones, bone marrow, skin, and corneas. Some<unk> s and tissues can be donated by living donors, such as a kidney or part of the liver, part of the pancreas, part of the lungs or part of the intestines, but most donations occur after the donor has died. In 2019, Spain had the highest donor rate in the world at 46.91 per million people, followed by the US (36.88 per million), Croatia (34.63 per million), Portugal (33.8 per million), and France (33.25 per million). As of February 2, 2019, there were 120,000 people waiting for life-saving<unk>  transplants in the US. Of these, 74,897 people were active candidates waiting for a donor. While views of<unk>  are positive, there is a large gap between the numbers of registered donors compared to those awaiting<unk> s on a global level. To increase the number of<unk>  donors, especially among underrepresented populations, current approaches include the use of optimized social network interventions, exposing tailored educational content about<unk>  to target social media users.
Organ donation
Body donation
Non-heart-beating donation
Blood donation
Organ transplantation
Deathcare
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Plasma medicine