As part of DonateLife Week Victorians are being urged to discuss with their families decisions to donate organs and tissue.
More than 200 kidneys, 64 livers, 53 lungs, 31 hearts, 13 pancreases, one heart-lung and five pancreas islets were donated to sick Victorians in 2014.
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Now in 2015, Victorians are being urged to have the conversation with their loved ones about organ and tissue donation.
DonateLife Week, which continues until Sunday August 9, is a national annual awareness campaign that encourages more discussion on the topic.
A new survey, released on Sunday, found 73 per cent of Victorians would say yes to receiving a transplant if they needed one with 69 per cent willing to become an organ and tissue donor.
Despite this community support, only 49 per cent of Victorians surveyed have made the decision on becoming a donor, and just 55 per cent have discussed the subject with their family.
To register to be an organ and tissue donor visit www.donorregister.gov.au.
