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Donor Card
How to Become an Eye Donor
To help restore sight to the blind in need of a corneal transplant, the State of Texas passed a law in 1977 that has helped give sight to thousands of Texans.
The law authorizes the medical examiner or justice of the peace to permit eye bank technicians to remove the cornea - the thin clear coating of the front of the eye - from a deceased person if three conditions exist:
- The decedent died under circumstances requiring an inquest
- No known objection to corneal donation by a qualified person is known by the medical examiner
- The removal of the cornea will not interfere with the investigation or autopsy, or alter the deceased's facial appearance.
The eye bank would like everyone to be an eye, organ and tissue donor and encourages people to sign donor cards and let their family know their wishes.
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