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According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant. More than 103,000 people, including children, are currently on the transplant waiting list in the United States. The Canadian Institute for Health Information reports that more than 3,400 Canadians were on organ transplant waiting lists at the end of 2023. Among the 681 Canadians removed from those lists in 2023, nearly one-third (31 percent) had died while waiting for a transplant. Such figures underscore the issues surrounding organ donation shortages in each country, where waiting lists grow but donor lists do not always increase, despite support for the cause. In fact, the 2019 National Survey of Organ Donation Attitudes and Practices found that 90 percent of the adult population of the United States supports organ donation, but only 60 percent have signed up as donors. Closing that gap could save an untold number of lives.