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VIEWPOINTS: Does your faith play a role in organ donation?

Most religions view organ donation as an act of love and charity, though most denominations haven't taken an official stance on the issue.

Read the full Viewpoints question here or continue on to the response below.

We acknowledge and use scientific advances

We acknowledge and use scientific advances in the form of medicine for the prolonging of life while at the same time recognizing that the body is but a temporary vehicle in which we are currently housed. With a combination of prayer and medicine we live life to the fullest for as long as we can and then let go and move on.

When we are done with this body, in this manifestation, then what happens to it is of no major concern. We may donate it to science, donate organs, be cremated, buried, or whatever it is we dream up for the resolution of the remains.

We, (our consciousness,) are on an eternal journey, of which this physical manifestation is just a way station, to the ultimate goal of returning to the conscious oneness with the divine.

Topics: Ethics, Medical Ethics
Beliefs: Christian - Protestant/Other, Other
Tags: earthly bodies and death, organ donation and science

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I’ve never pondered the connection between faith and organ donation

I've never pondered the connection between my faith and organ donation. I tend to avoid thinking of my own death, so the question of organ donation comes up only every four years when renewing my driver's license.
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I’ve selected to be an organ donor

I just renewed my drivers license online this month and had the opportunity to choose to select to be an organ donor.
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