People who sign up to be organ donors in the UK could be put on transplant priority lists or qualify their family for funeral cost cover under radical plans being considered to boost donor ...

WEBVTT TODAY.JENNIFER: IT'S A FAMILYCONVERSATION THAT NONE OF USWANT TO HAVE WITH OUR KIDS.BUT AT 14 YEARS OLD, HE TOLD HISMOM HE WANTED TO BE AN ORGANDONOR IF ANYTHING HAPPENED.SHE SAID OK, BUT I ...

You won’t be able to un-hear this. A mortuary technician has managed to make a whole lot of people shudder with her explanation of what happens to your organs after you die. “During a postmortem ...

Organ donation for scientific use of the body is a frequent choice that people make prior to death. By law in California, a hospital or medical provider must ask for donations at time of death. The ...

Bob Arrington is president of Arrington Funeral Directors, which is located in Jackson, Tennessee. This is the sixth in the #BeTheGift series of guest essays in the USA TODAY Network Tennessee in ...

If only figuring out what to do with your body after you die was as simple as TV made it seem. "I'm not going to be buried in a grave," said character Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in ...

LONDON - Offering free funerals to people who donate kidneys, livers and other organs could help boost donation rates, an influential British medical ethics group says. In a set of recommendations ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The state committee that oversees a fund aimed at increasing organ donations has asked the Health Department to resuscitate a previously rejected proposal to pay a portion of donors' ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WPVI) -- It was a funeral filled with the deepest sorrow and the greatest joy because Ivonne Martinez Rivera was an organ donor. "My wife is the type of person who will help ...

Newborn Samaria Sauls died about six weeks after she was born. Her family says they are fighting for information about her death.