Most importantly, simply tell your family. Then Change your documents and send a letter to the Gift of Life Donor Registry indicating your wishes. Kidneys, heart, lungs, liver and pancreas. Corneas, whole eyes, skin, bone, heart valves and saphenous veins. Donation neither disfigures the body nor changes the way it looks in the casket.
Donations costs nothing to the donor's family or estate.
The donor's family is responsible for regular hospital charges not involved with the donation, and the funeral arrangements. Most major religions approve of donation and consider it a Gift, an act of charity. However, if in doubt, talk to your spiritual leader. Organ and tissue recovery takes place only after all efforts to save your life have been exhausted and death has been legally declared. Entirely different medical teams are called to recover organ and tissue, they are never the same personnel working to save your life.