Anyone can join the Michigan Organ Donor Registry, regardless of their health or social history, by selecting the option in their Secretary of State online services account. Advances in medicine continue to allow more people to donate life-saving organs, even those with diabetes, cancer or other serious illnesses. After your death, a medical professional will determine which organs and tissues can be used to help others. Your medical care will not be impacted by your decision to donate.

There are no age restrictions to joining the Donor Registry. Minors may register with or without parental support, however their parents make the final decision about donation until they turn 18. We encourage anyone considering the decision to donate, regardless of age, to discuss it with their family.

One person can donate up to eight life-saving organs, plus tissues that can improve the lives of up to 75 people. Organs that can be donated include: the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, intestines and pancreas. Tissues include: eye tissues and corneas, bone, tendons, skin, heart valves, veins and nerves.

Organs, tissues and eyes are recovered through dignified surgical procedures conducted with the highest level of care and respect for the donor. For more information, watch these brief videos on eye donation and organ donation.

Eversight is a nonprofit eye bank network based in Ann Arbor, Mich. with a mission to restore sight and prevent blindness through the healing power of eye donation, corneal transportation and vision research.

Eversight is responsible for recovering, evaluating and providing donor eye tissue for transplantation; supporting research into the causes and cures of blinding eye conditions; promoting donation awareness through public and professional education; and providing humanitarian aid to people around the world in need of corneal transplantation.

One billion people are coping with preventable vision loss globally, including 12 million who suffer from corneal blindness - the fourth leading cause of blindness worldwide. Eversight is working to address this global burden and help make vision a reality for more people worldwide.

As a global leader in the field of eye banking, Eversight enables donors and their families to give the gift of sight and takes great pride in being responsible stewards of donors' precious gifts.

Operating in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and South Korea, Eversight works in collaboration with surgeons, researchers, academic medical centers and eye banks across the United States and abroad. For more information, visit eversightvision.org and watch this video.

Please consider signing up on the Donor Registry today. If you join when you renew or when you get your first driver's license or state ID card, you'll have a heart symbol printed on your new driver's license or state ID card. If you join before your license expires, you'll receive a heart symbol sticker to be placed on your license or ID card. When your license or ID card expires, you'll be sent a new one with the heart symbol printed on it after you renew. If you lose your heart symbol sticker, you can easily order a new one.