what's your stand or beliefs on blood donation, organ donation & cremation?
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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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You forgot the parallel question: "If an organ donor lusts in his heart, will he be able to go to heaven by giving his sinful heart to someone else?"\n\nRaw deal for the recipient, I think. ;)\n\nI also wonder, what happens if my spleen is sinful but my appendix is a decent sort of organ? Does my spleen go to hell, while the rest of me goes to heaven?
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Medical experts feel confident about most organ transplants.\n\nSuccess in this field of surgery is increasing every year.\n\nThe only organs which cannot be successfully transplanted at the moment are the brain and spinal column.\n_______________________________________________________\n\nThoracic Organs...\n...........................\nHeart (Deceased-donor only) \nLung (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) \nEn bloc Heart/Lung (Deceased-donor only) \n__________________________________________________\n\nAbdominal Organs....\n...............................\nLiver (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) \nKidney (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) \nPancreas (Deceased-donor and rarely Living-Donor) \nSmall bowel (Small Intestine) (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) \nKidney-Pancreas (Sometimes simultaneous, sometimes in separate procedures) (Deceased-donor, Living-Donor, and combined deceased/living (e.g. kidney from living donor, pancreas from deceased donor)) \nCombined Liver-Kidney (Generally Deceased-donor only) \nCombined Liver-Small Bowel (Deceased-donor only) \n_________________________________________________\n\nOther Organs.........\n.................................\nHand (Deceased-donor only) \nCornea (Deceased-donor only) \nSkin graft including Face transplant (almost always autograft) \n[edit]\nTissues, Cells, and Fluids\nIslets of Langerhans (Pancreas Islet Cells) (Deceased-donor and Living-Donor) \nBone marrow/Adult stem cell (Living-Donor and Autograft) \nBlood transfusion/Blood Parts Transfusion (Living-Donor and Autograft) \nBlood vessels (Autograft and Deceased-Donor) \nHeart valve (Deceased-Donor, Living-Donor and Xenograft[Pig]) \nBone (Deceased-Donor, Living-Donor, and Autograft) \nSkin (Deceased-Donor, Living-Donor, and Autograft) \n\n________________________________________________________\n\nCheck out this link...it's pretty cool ;\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant#Major_Organs_and_Tissues_Transplanted
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There are too few transplantable hearts to waste them on people with a death wish, but it is not my decision.  My driver's license states that I am an organ donor, but there was no check-off box that said "Do not give my organs to a smoker."  Life is not fair, and people are worse.
368066
I have never seen any verse in the Bible that suggests that we should not have a blood transfusion. All it says is that the life of the flesh is in the blood. That's the precise reason why we give transfusions. Transfuse away!
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Yup. I am one of them!!!!\n\nJust kidding. Don't belive in SPIRIT etc., our body gets completly destroyed soon after we die. That's it.
914192
My mom was a Catholic. When she died she was cremated and we had her ashes installed in one of the crypts of a Catholic Chruch. I was one of the designers for memorials parks in the 70's but lately I made an anti-thesis to that claiming that big areas of land in the metropolis should belong to the living and not to the dead and I supported my works with designs of high rise building for cremated deads complete with whatever amenities needed in memorial chapels and crematorium. I believe Catholic acceptance of cremation. started officially in the late seventies.
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Yes, but I haven't donated in years.  Last time I went in I was anemic, and then I was pregnant, and now with a 5 month old I haven't had time.  I love to donate blood, there is nothing better than knowing that with a little needle prick you could save someones life.
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organ donation is probably the best!\n\nsearch for info about it and find some stories about people and their lives and how their lives have changed because of organ donation\n\nthis is one speech you will win
334620
You can't earn money by donating blood anywhere in the US.  You can donate plasma for money, but not blood.  That's why it's called a "donation".
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People might have different views about cloning. But  if  organs are cloned for people who cant find any donors ,then its right and should be encouraged.But this technology should be handled with extra care, so that it may not get misused
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i hope your talking about an intimate act with someone you wish to be VERY close with, and not the general public.  a little bit of blood is not harmful, unless the "donor" is ill.  small cuts in areas not seen by the general public is a good idea.  no need for others to know about such practices.
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I am one. I'm not going to need my organs after I die anyway. When God gets ready to resurrect my body, He'll find 'em.
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They can, but through faith choose not to.  It should be mentioned that only 13% of those refusing blood are witnesses.  The Bible says the blood is the soul, so by taking a blood transfusion, you are infusing someone else's soul into yourself.  The Bible also teaches not to take in blood.\n\nMany great medical achievements have happened as a result of their refusals.  Doctors had to develop methods to avoid excess blood loss, always a good idea.  UCLA now does bloodless liver transplants.  \n\n100% of people taking blood experience side affects.  Blood transfusions lowers the immunal response, with large transfusions used to shut down the immune system for transplants.  The immunal response is a lot like that of AIDS.  If you get sick after a transmission, its with a rare illness, not a common one.\n\nIn England, the blood supply is no longer considered safe, due to mad cow disease.  Anyone under 18 can only receive a transfusion of blood imported from America.
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Wow, this opens up a can of worms.  Be prepared to duck; you may get some very sharpish answers!\n\nFor what it's worth (FWIW), I've heard that some very conservative Christians are not very happy with the idea of organ donation because they want to be resurrected with all their parts.  \n\n(Personally, things are going to decay anyway, I figure, and I cannot see how an omnipotent Deity is going to be slowed up significantly if someone's minus a few tissues....But I'll leave it for such believers to believe as they choose, and if I've misunderstood their doctrine, hope they'll accept it as an honest goof and not malicious.)   \n\nI understand that some of the more conservative Jewish groups feel that autopsies and such are disrespectful to the dead, and THINK that some Muslim groups have similar beliefs.  However, do NOT know whether the potential "good" and charity that can come from saving life overrides such "disrespect". \n\nI've found, again FWIW, that people in the more "liberal"  denominations (examples:  Quaker/Friends, United Church of Christ), Unitarians, and Pagans/Wiccans tend to be very vigorously IN FAVOR of donating organs and tissues, on the basis of "hey, let's not waste them, and we can do some wonderful good for a number of people".  \n\nHowever, individual people may vary.  You may need to check for "policy papers" on organ donation for each separate spiritual denomination/belief, if you want better data....but this is going to be almost impossible for the atheists/agnostics, and also for the Pagans/Wiccans (because we're independent-minded and ornery as cats, and HAVE no centralized religious governing body to set policy).\n\nI signed the "organ donor" designation on my license right when turning legal age....and before that, told my parents to donate anything and everything as my last wish.  Was raised Lutheran (Missouri Synod---one of the more conservative L.), but now am a very happy Goddess-worshipping Pagan.
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mine is simple. i believe in mother nature. i believe that there is a final resting place for souls if you will, but that you won't get there until you learn all of your lessons in each life. as far as the strength to carry on i just look out my window and see the trees and the animals.\n\nand as for the ghosts..yeah i used to see my grandfather in our old house. i'd be in my room watching tv or something and he'd float on by in my other room(i had two rooms connected).\n\nps-runningman i think he wants your personal reasons, not regurgitated words from a website.
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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.