i would personally give my organs (if any are any good lol) to somebody who needed them but what do you think??? plus i have heard that organs carry a part of you...so somebody who has had a lot of transplants, ive heart there is a lot of medical speculation of when they have so many different trasplants are they the same person????  i thought it was your brain that holds everything it is to be you but is that true?????
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one's organs work hard for you, i share a lot of things with the community, but not my organs-they barely work for me!
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Working in the health care field I personally have mixed emotions. On a religious level it's just not natural to do.  However, if it were my children that needed a heart, kidney, etc. I'm certain I would consider medical professionals cloning them as a method of an exact match for replacement organs.
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Does not seem fair to me either.  I'm a strong believer that if you choose to harm your body, you should give up your chance to receive a donor organ.
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Testicles are like kidneys we only need one.  You may be able to arrange something third party but as far as i know organ sale in this country is illegal.
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Right. I mean, if we can grow organs in a lab than maybe not as many people will die while they are on organ transplant waiting lists. Of course with every step for man kind comes an inherent evil as well. We could start growing humans and using them as slaves... that would be wrong, but growing organs to save lives... THAT'S A MIRACLE! Embrace it.
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Wow, what a good question. I'd think that there would be minute amounts of the donors DNA in the recipients blood stream, but it probably wouldn't be detecable. I'm guessing.\n\nIf it were true that all the donor cells die and are replaced by new cells, then it wouldn't be necessary for the recipient to take immunosuppressents  for the rest of their life. They wouldn't have to worry about the body rejecting the new heart after a a few years, but they do.\n\nNo, the new DNA won't proliferate, but there will most likely be trace amounts of it in their body for years to come.
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The Bible is really silent on the issue as it was not around in the period of time it was written.  The Bible does say that no greater love has any man than to lay down his life for another.  Taking that and looking at organ donation, I think that God would be very pleased that we would give our useless organs to another to save their lives.  What use do we have with them if we are dead?  It serves a greater good to help another and if God says that the greatest love is to lay our lives down for another, giving life when our lives are gone seems almost redundant...of course we should.  Hope this helps.
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That's a good question and I appreciate your respect.  I must first make a disclaimer that I am a guy and have never been pregnant, so I can't claim what emotional bonds there are between a pro-choice mother and her unborn child.  That being said, I think it is the potential of the child that I would love.  What it had a chance to be and experience once it was born.  It would be wonderful to see it develop into that potential through ultrasounds etc. To answer your questions: Yes, I would think of it as alive.  Yes, I would think of it as a mass of tissue with the potential to become a human being (I assume you are asking about the first trimester, when aborting is currently legal).  Yes, I cold still bond with it, knowing that it will be loved and grow up to perhaps be a wonderful person some day.  I don't think the same is true of a child that grows up unwanted/unloved/abused/addicted to drugs etc.  I don't think I am a hypocryte just because I don't force my beliefs on others.  I am pro-choice, not pro abortion.
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I find nothing in the Bible that would prevent you from being an organ donor, and if your family agrees with your decision, then I would encourage you to do so.\n\nIn fact, doing this could be an important way to help someone facing a serious medical condition. Although you would never meet that person in this life, think of what your donation could mean to them. At least it could give that person a better quality of life—and in some instances could even mean the difference between life and death. The Bible says, "Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people" (Galatians 6:10).\n\nYour question, however, touches on another issue that concerns me greatly—and that is the number of people who are killed or seriously injured in traffic accidents. One reason you were asked to indicate on your driver's license if you were willing to be an organ donor is because tens of thousands of people die on our roads every year—and you could be one of them. Ask God, therefore, to make you a better driver. This is just as much a God-given responsibility as any other.\n\nAbove all, remember that organ transplants may delay death for a time—but Christ offers us "an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you" (1 Peter 1:4). Is your faith and hope in Him? \n  The Bible does not give specific directions for the disposal of the body following death. Bible-era practices are described in Unger's Bible Dictionary as follows: "Interment in Bible times followed soon after death, as is evident in the narratives of the burial of Sarah (Genesis 23:1-20), Rachel (Genesis 35:19-20), and Rebekah's nurse (Genesis 35:8). The Hebrews did not normally cremate, except in most unusual cases of emergency, as in the case of Saul and his sons (1 Samuel 31:11-13). Later Babylonians burned their dead and deposited their ashes in ornate funerary urns, as did Greeks and Romans. Hebrews in later time, indicated by the numerous ossuaries found in New Testament Palestine, also practiced cremation." \n\nChristians will want to show respect for the body. Even though the essential person or spirit has moved on to an eternal destiny, the body is the tangible reminder of all that person meant to us. In addition, the body is destined for resurrection, transformation, and reunion with the spirit at Christ's return. Whether burial or cremation best expresses that appropriate respect is a very personal decision. The wishes of other close family members and friends should also be considered in any decision because they are the ones who will live with the decision and with the memories.\n\nAt the resurrection it will not make any difference whether a person's body has been buried or cremated. God knows how to raise the body, either in the resurrection of life or the resurrection of condemnation (John 5:28-29). The new body of a Christian will be a radically changed and glorified body like the body of the exalted Christ. It will be an eternal, spiritual body never again to experience weakness, disease, suffering, or death (1 Corinthians 15:35-54 and Philippians 3:20-21).
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To be Leary of such is honest but what if I needed a new part for my body and you could clone it?  What would you say then?  If God allowed us to clone people,  I believe he would not be cruel and deny that cloned person a soul.  Also another question arises which is a practical one.  If a person is cloned, then they have the same DNA and fingerprints.  What if that person commits a crime and you have no alibi?  You might be mistakenly arrested.
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fraking kid making us do his damn homework for him.. lazy @ss... JUST KIDDING glad to help a friend in need! here u go\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant
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in the us of a, and any other western civilized country, it is illegal to sell or purchase any type of organs. when selling it illegaly, which i would not recommend at all, you will not get the money you need anyway, because the people conducting the surgeries are the one's who make the buck. not you.\nan other problem will be, that you have just one kidney left, that can cause trouble too, because now, one organ has to do the work of 2. most of the time it does work, but it's not guranteed. when donating a kidney once you are still alive, you have to be adonor doing it WITHOUT any money background. after your death, over 50 organ/organ parts can be used to help the same amount of people, but your family will not receive any money either . thats why this is called 'organ donation'. \nplease do not consider that as an option. good luck with solving your problems in a different way, i dont think selling your organs will help you and your problems on the long run.\n\ngood luck
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I believe that every life is valuable, regardless of the person's physical/mental state. A person is a person.\n\nSo, I would save the thousands, because I would be saving thousands of valuable lives rather than just one valuable life. \n\nIt would be such a tough situation though, and honestly, I couldn't really say what I would do until I was in the actual situation.\n\nPS. What does that have to do with abortion?
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hopfully, the sperm banks are still in one peace and also one of the guys can preform a uturine transplant operation on the other guys. we would need a much larger gene pool to work from. i would be happy to assist in the operating room and hold heads as they puke in the first trimester. we women have plenty of eggs to go around for them.
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One of the major problems with most transplant procedures is acceptibility. The patient's body recognizes the new organ as an intruder or threat, and attacks it.\nA cloned version of yourself would theoretically be a source of completely acceptable organs, since they are, in essence, your organs, genetically identical. Of course, you'd be killing another sentient being to harvest these organs, so there's the morality issue.\n\nHuman ingenuity has always been directed towards two opposite goals, saving lives, and destroying them. The other likely reason for cloning humans is for war. Identical soldiers, genetically modified to increase their physical prowess, dexterity with their weapon, and willingness to follow orders. Why send thousands of skilled laborers, with families and children, to their deaths when you can have a clone army grown specifically to be cannon fodder?\n\nI'm sure you could think of a few more reasons, if you really thought about it.
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Never been there, however I can tell you that if you are prefectly healthy and they take a prefectly healthy organ from you, you will feel weak and will probably take longer to recover than your sister. Afterwards you probably won't notice much of a difference.\n\nJust going from memory here though. But if she needs the kidney to live, then it'll be worth it. It hurts more to lose a loved one than it does an organ.
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I believe in today's day and age we see people coming back to life after being dead many, Many times!  However, we no longer see it as a miracle but as an act of science, medicine, etc.  I've seen people how have dead from very minor things and others how should be dead (and some that has) and then they end up coming back and being perfectly fine again.  I think the human race is taking to much credit for that and calling it good medicine and I am a firm believer that it's not ONLY good medicine but also a GREAT God!!