World Organ Donation Day 2025: Theme, Importance and List of Organs Than Can Be Donated also best 20+ Quotes

Here’s a World Organ Donation Day 2025, including theme, significance, organs that can be donated, and inspirational quotes:

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World Organ Donation Day 2025

• Date: Annually observed on August 13 .

Theme

• The theme for 2025 is “Answering the Call”, a rallying cry to healthcare professionals and the public alike to unite and respond to the growing need for organ donation .

Importance

• “Answering the Call” highlights the vital role both professionals and citizens play in saving lives through donation .
• One donor has the potential to save up to eight lives and improve up to 75 through tissue donation .
• In India, there remains a substantial gap: over 300,000 people await transplants, but awareness and registered donor rates are extremely low .

Organs & Tissues That Can Be Donated

Living Donors:

• Kidneys (one)
• Part of the liver
• Portion of pancreas
• Part of intestine
• (Some sources note lungs too)

Deceased Donors:

• Heart, two kidneys, liver, two lungs, pancreas, intestines
• Advanced procedures may allow donation of hands and face

After Natural Death (Tissue Donation):

• Cornea, skin, heart valves, bones, tendons, bone marrow, cartilage

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Inspirational Quotes on Organ Donation (20+)

Here are some powerful and motivational quotes to uplift awareness and reflect the spirit of giving:

1. “The decision to become a donor can save up to eight lives and enhance many more… I encourage individuals… to discuss this choice with friends and family.” – Barack Obama
2. “The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.” – Peter Marshall
3. “Live life after death – pledge to donate your body.” – Amit Abraham
4. “It takes lives to save lives.” – Oscar Auliq-Ice
5. “I would donate whatever anybody would take.” – George Coloney

6. “To give is to live on.”
7. “Donate organs, give someone a second chance at life.”
8. “Your end can be someone else’s beginning.”
9. “Heroes live on through the lives they save.”
10. “Be the gift of life.”
11. “Saving one life won’t change the world, but it will change the world for one person.”
12. “Life continues in others.”
13. “Gift your organs, gift a future.”
14. “A donor is someone’s angel.”
15. “Hope lives where organ donors act.”
16. “Turn grief into hope.”
17. “Heroes never die—they live in the lives they save.”
18. “Compassion is life’s most precious gift.”
19. “Leave a legacy of life.”
20. “One organ can make a world of difference.”
21. “Make your legacy a lifeline.”
22. “Through donation, love lives on.”

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Summary Table

Aspect	Details
Date	August 13, 2025
Theme	"Answering the Call"
Why It Matters	A way to save multiple lives; awareness remains low in India
Donatable Organs	Living: kidney, liver, pancreas, intestines (sometimes lung)
	Deceased: heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, intestines, hands, face
	Tissues: cornea, skin, bone, valves, etc.
Quotes	20+ motivational lines capturing hope, legacy, and action

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