Indian society has been aware of eye donation after death for several decades. But skin donation is a relatively newer concept. It is a donation that anyone can make after their deaths, which can save the lives of thousands of people and offer them a much better quality of life.

Skin donation can be made AFTER cardiac death. (Organ donation can only happen if the person has been declared brain dead).

Cardiac death is when the heart stops beating. Brain Death is when the brain dies but the deceased keeps breathing with the help of a ventilator, and the heart and other organs are kept alive artificially. This can happen only in a hospital under certain conditions. A person can donate their organs only in the case of brain death, BUT they can donate their eyes and skin even when they suffer a cardiac death.