My family will have to pay the cost of organ donation. A history of medical illness or advanced age will automatically eliminate a person from being a donor. Becoming an organ and tissue donor will leave my body disfigured. Donation doesn t disfigure the body or change the way it looks in a casket. People can rise from brain death.
Brain death is an accepted medical, ethical and legal principle.
Organ recipients acquire their donor s characteristics. Now maybe you can consider organ donation with more of an open mind. Your lungs could breathe for someone else. Your kidneys could free two people from dialysis. Your pancreas could free two people from dialysis.