Organs and tissues that cannot be used for transplantation can often be used to help scientists find cures for chronic illnesses and serious diseases. Organs you can donate include heart, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, liver and intestines. Tissue that can be donated include eye, skin, bone, heart valves and tendons. Organ and tissue recovery happens only after every effort has been made to save your life and death has been legally declared. Donation neither disfigures the body nor changes the way it looks in a casket.
Donation costs nothing to the donor's family or estate.
A national system is in place to distribute organs fairly. Buying and selling organs is illegal.