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When registering your choice in the Donor Register, you are given four options:

• Yes, I want to be a donor - You want to be a donor.
• No, I do not want to be a donor - You do not want to be a donor.
• My partner or family will decide after my death - Upon your death, your partner or family may make the choice.
• I designate one person to decide after my death - You want someone else to choose for you after your death

Read more here about making your choice in the Donor Register.

You can always view and change your choice in the Donor Register yourself. You can do this with your DigiD on the Donor Register website.

Without DigiD, you can request your choice via this application form on the website of the Donor Register. You will then receive a letter with your choice at home at the address where you are registered with the municipality. To change your choice without DigiD, you fill out a donor form. You can request this form online, pick it up at the town hall or request it via the information number 0900 821 21 66.

After your death, you can donate these organs: liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, kidneys and small intestine. Donor organs help sick patients who would die without this organ.

You can donate these tissues after your death: eye tissue, heart valves, large blood vessels, skin, bone, cartilage and tendon tissue. Tissues are used to improve the quality of life of patients.

You decide for yourself which organs and tissues you do or do not want to donate. You can register this in the Donor Register.

Yes, you can be an organ and tissue donor if you have an illness. Your illness can affect which organs and tissues you can donate. A doctor always investigates what is possible.

For example, cancer can be an obstacle to donation, but that is not always the case. That depends on how and when someone passes away. Medications, chemotherapy and the type of cancer also influence whether someone can be a donor.

You can fill in your choice in the Donor Register; a doctor will then investigate what is possible upon death.

Age is generally not so important for donation. What matters is whether your organ or tissue is still good. A doctor will always examine whether the organs and tissues are still healthy enough prior to donation.