The brain bank in the NIH NeuroBiobank with which the donor is registered will provide an all-hours phone number for family to call as soon as possible after the donor’s death. It is helpful for someone to notify the brain bank as much as a few days in advance if it’s becoming clear that death is imminent. The brain bank will then coordinate transportation so that the body will be moved to a local facility (sometimes this can be the funeral home the family is working with, or a mortuary, or medical facility). The brain bank then sends a pathologist or recovery specialist to remove the brain through the back of the head so as not to be disfiguring and ship it to the brain bank. All of that is done at no cost to the family. The body will then be released per the family’s instructions for funeral, burial and/or cremation services.