Do Age and Religion Have an Impact on the Attitude to Organ Transplantation?

•Religious issues may be an important reason for the lack of organs for transplantation.•The families of deceased donors often do not agree to have organs removed from their relatives, justifying it with religious reasons.•We determined whether age and religion affect organ donation and transplantation by using a diagnostic poll study that included 1,273 people living in the northeastern part of Poland.•Age (>60 and ≤60 years) and religious affiliation (Catholic, Baptist, and Muslim) have a considerable influence on the positive attitude to transplantation.•The majority of younger people, as well as Catholic subjects, approve of the removal of organs from living donors and from dead donors.