The transplant team is not notified until all lifesaving efforts have failed. 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.