There’s no age limit to donation or to signing up. People in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and older have donated and received organs. Learn the facts about donating for people over age 50.

Theoretically, a person with advanced organ failure could be given a new and functional body while keeping their own personality, memories, and consciousness through such a procedure. No human brain transplant has ever been conducted.

According to a lawyer in the case, the price for your precious, precious marrow can reach $3,000. But don’t quit your job just yet: There’s about a 1-in-540 chance you’ll actually get the opportunity to donate.

Many different types of organs can be supplied by living donors, including:

• Kidney. This is the most frequent type of living organ donation.
• Liver. Individuals can donate a segment of the liver, which has the ability to regenerate and regain full function.
• Lung.
• Intestine.
• Pancreas.
• Heart.
• Uterus.

You may be able to donate:

• One of your kidneys. A kidney is the most common donation.
• One liver lobe. Cells in the remaining lobe grow or refresh until your liver is almost its original size.
• A lung or part of a lung, part of the pancreas, or part of the intestines. These organs don’t regrow.

Healthy, nonsmoking adults who are a good match may be able to donate part of one of their lungs. The part of the lung is called a lobe. This type of transplant is called a living transplant. People who donate a lung lobe can live healthy lives with the remaining lungs.

Can I donate a lung to a family member who needs a transplant? Technically, you can’t donate an entire lung. Some transplant centers do “living donor” lung transplants, where the lower lobes of a lung (your right lung has three lobes, and the left lung has two) from two donors are transplanted.

Just about anyone, at any age, can become an organ donor. Anyone younger than age18 needs to have the consent of a parent or guardian. Having a serious condition like cancer, HIV, diabetes, kidney disease, or heart disease can prevent you from donating as a living donor.

Yes. When you specify who is to receive your donated organ or organs you are participating in what’s called directed or designated donation. This can be done for both deceased donors and living donors.

Women getting a male donor heart were no more likely to have organ rejection than if the heart came from another woman. The findings indicate that if a choice is available, doctors should give a transplant patient a heart from a donor of the same sex, the researchers said.