I to am a Organ Donor but I have to warn people that even if they have signed their license and let their family know their wishes the individual hospital the patient dies in becomes an issue. Here is my experience. The law in IL says that all accidental death patients families must be asked if they would like to donate but this law is often ignored. My husband died several years ago from complications from a car accident. While he was on the way to the hospital after cardiac arrest I advised the ambulance attendants that he was an organ donor and he should be put on a ventilator in order to harvest the organs. When I got to the hospital I advised the ER staff of the same thing. After he was pronounced dead the staff told me they would let me say good bye after they disconnected all the machines. I told them again not to do that because he needed to be kept on the machines until they harvested the organs, especially the lungs. They told me I would have to sign some forms. I waited over 2 hours for the forms and they never came. When they told me this was a mistake and I could go home I did. 4 hours after that the coroner called and said he had found his license and it said he was an organ donor at that time the only organ still able to be harvested were his cornias. When I contacted the hospital to complain they said since they did not do transplants they did not take the time to save the organs. This is ridiculous because ROBI (Regional Organ Bank of Illinois) would have come in and done the harvesting of the organs for them. I feel like my husband died twice because of the actions of this hospital.