"We can open up the question of financial incentives" for organ donations "without worrying about undue coercive pressures," says medical ethicist Robert Veatch of Georgetown University.

"Easter should be for us a genuine joy," says Lutheran pastor, professor, and writer Walter Wangerin Jr, "that for a while death was all that existed, but coming with Easter is the remarkable, surprising grace that death is overcome."

Western Christians are celebrating Holy Week and Easter this week, their most sacred time of the year. In the many special services and observances that take place during Holy Week, music plays a crucial role in setting the mood of the worship and in helping to convey the Easter message.

For Western Christians, Sunday (March 16) is Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week, leading up to Easter (March 23). But Eastern Orthodox Christians have just begun observing their time of Lent. Because of differing church calendars, Western and Eastern Christians usually celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on different dates.

In this special Easter report, Kim Lawton checks in with two New Orleans pastors who were both in their first years at their churches when Hurricane Katrina hit.