2025 NDLM Crossword Puzzle

3. ___ donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation.
4. A vital organ that filters waste from the blood and can be donated by a living donor.
10. An organization that coordinates organ recovery and allocation.
11. Race, gender, income, celebrity and social status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression does __ prevent someone from registering as an organ donor.
13. A person who receives a transplanted organ or tissue.
15. Donors of all ___ are needed.
16. The process of surgically transferring an organ from a donor to a recipient.
19. Another person is added to the ____ list every eight minutes.
21. The type of tissue that includes tendons and ligaments and can be donated.
22. April is National Donate ____ Month.
23. Through the entire donation process the body is treated with care and respect. Following donation, ____ arrangements can continue as planned.
25. Only after a patient has been declared clinically and legally dead is ____an option.

1. The Donate Life colors are blue and ___.
2. All major ____ support donation as a final act of compassion and generosity.
5. A small symbol on your driver's license that indicates you have registered as a donor.
6. The 2025 National Donate Life Month theme is Let Life ___.
7. When you register as an organ, eye and tissue donor, your story ____.
8. The clear front part of the eye that can be donated to restore vision for up to two people.
9. The __ DoNation campaign connects hospitals with their OPO to bring education, awareness and registration opportunities to local communities about donation.
12. A type of donation where a person gives a kidney, birth tissue or part of their liver while still alive.
14. The largest internal organ that can regenerate and is commonly transplanted.
17. ___ % of people on the national transplant waiting list are from multicultural communities.
18. Tissue donation can help heal severe burns by using donated ____.
20. In the United States, it is _____ to buy or sell organs and tissue for transplantation.
24. A national system that matches donated organs with waiting recipients.