Organ Donation

I was discussing this with a friend recently and she advised me she is "donating my brain if they can find it".  She has listed with the Brain Foundation.  Apparently, like general donations, it depends on how and when one dies but with the brain donation the time factor is not so critical. (Sorry, I am yet to look into it).  Her specific reason for the donation is for research into illnesses such as Alzheimer's.  I have been assured by nursing friends that the organ/brain donors are handled with extreme care as if it was a regular surgical procedure and the body can still be in an open coffin if that is what one wants to have. Me ?  Use what they can and burn the rest then chuck my ashes out in the ocean.  I figure that if there is no life after death who needs to keep the bits, especially when the thing has failed us, eh ?  It may be a sad subject to some but best one's family knows one's wishes.