I work at a funeral home, so I know quite a lot about this subject. By and large it's a good thing, but there are unfortunate things that go along with it. First off, the organ and tissue donation companies can be shady, and their technicians are typically under-trained. If you look at their websites and other literature, they leave out some pertinent information. Most people think that if they donate their heart, that the doctors just gently open them up, remove the organ, and them sew them up so that nobody could ever tell something was removed. Most of the time, after the organ and tissue companies come through, the body is left in scraps. Gross, huh? The issue I deal with is that the family of the deceased often is never told this is what happens when someone donates their tissues and organs, and they are expecting to have a viewing and/or open casket funeral. Secondly, there are inherent time and resource implications in the funeral industry. If it takes a whole crew of funeral directors 10 hours to put humpty dumpty back together, that is time and resources taken away from other families and services.

I still am an organ donor, though. If I'm dead, and I can somehow make somebody else's life more enjoyable, then I'm all for it.