Can you be an eligible post-mortem organ donor candidate when you are traveling abroad?

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The German Federal Centre for Health Education offers donor cards in many languages specifically for this purpose. They do warn that the local rules apply by default (GrundsΓ€tzlich gilt immer die Regelung des jeweiligen Landes) but they claim the card would generally be honored.

Beyond the implementation details (opt-in, opt-out, central register or not, etc.) the rules generally give a strong weight to the wishes of the deceased. It does therefore make sense that carrying a document expressing those wishes unambiguously in the local language would make it more likely that your organs would be used following your instructions.

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