The most commonly donated organ is the eye. The other organs often used in India are the heart and the liver. A beneficial fallout of my article "Spare a thought for the donor' in The-Hindu of April 15 has been the interest it aroused in cadaver organ donations. I have had a number of calls from people asking for information on the use of organs after death. This piece should be read in conjunction with the previous article. If you missed that, please retrieve it and read it. If you do not have the paper, you can get the article from the archives on The?Hindu's website: http://www.hindu. com/ 2008/04/15/stories/ 2008041554940900.htm The main source of transplanted organs all over the world, though not in India, is dead bodies, also known as cadavers. Recent refinements in language made people feel that the term cadaver was crude, and also it applies to any dead body. Since organs can be used for transplantation only soon after death, the term has since been modified. The Oxford English Dictionary defines deceased as "dead, especially lately dead