Religion and Organ Donation

I personally am Catholic and my father had a liver transplant. I do not feel it is a religious question. I cannot imagine there being any grand after life penalty for donating or not donating an organ. If you would like to then by all means you should make your wish clear, if it is not your thing then don't do it. As far as I understand your "body" does not go to heaven it would be your soul and a transplant would have nothing to do with your soul.
Later my father had medication complications after the transplant and passed away. He then became an organ donor.

I am an organ donor and I'm also pretty religious ...

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I know Catholics who donate organs. :) I'm listed as one. However, I hope they put my parts in nice people! Just being silly! :)

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I'm a donor.

I'm a donor.

All major religions support and encourage organ donation.

Over half of the 99,000 Americans on the national transplant waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over 6,000 of our neighbors suffer and die needlessly every year as a result.

There is a simple way to put a big dent in the organ shortage -- give organs first to people who have agreed to donate their own organs when they die.

Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors. It will also make the organ allocation system fairer. People who aren't willing to share the gift of life should go to the back of the waiting list as long as there is a shortage of organs.

Anyone who wants to donate their organs to others who have agreed to donate theirs can join LifeSharers. LifeSharers is a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die. Membership is free at www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.

I am donating my organs. We also donated my sisters when she died as well.

I am religious.

I was raised to belive our soul goes to heaven and our body is left behind. So, why would people not donate? To me that is selfish. You are dead.....please do the last good thing you can ever do..Help someone else live by donating your organs when you die.

I am a donor. I am not religious. My youngest sister was killed by a drunk driver when she was just 10 years old (10 days before her 11th birthday). We were able to donate her organs and later we found out that 3 people (2 of them kids) benefited from the donation. This is what inspired me to become a donor. If in my death, I can bring someone else good health or possibly life itself then it would be worth it.

I think cremation is also a "no-no" but I say it goes back to a sin against the environment...and the damage to others. I am a donor...but it grosses my husband out. So, if I or my kids die before him, we may be in trouble.

God wants us to be stewards of the Earth. I take that to mean that He disapproves of waste. Isn't organ donation the ultimate in recycling?

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I am a donor...I believe that God gave man the sense to use his brain to transplant organs so that others will live...I don't believe that I will have this same body (I hope it will be better than this)...I will be perfect and new when I get to Heaven...and I'm not religous...I am Christian...to me there is a big difference.

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As I understand it, your spirit goes to heaven, leaving your body behind. While you live on Earth, your body is considered a temple to God. In the religions you mentioned, doing God's work includes doing many things to aid your fellow human beings, and the temple (the church) is responsible for being a leader in that area.
Organ donation allows people with failing organs to be relieved of some of the suffering that comes with the health issues which cause that suffering. Diabetics with renal failure can be allowed to live without the aid of kidney dialysis, for instance, and donation of one's eyes can give a blind person the chance to see. Healing others follows the example of miracles attributed to God in many different religions.
In light of these things, I would think that organ donation would be a positive religious act for many people... a last act of giving that which one can spare to those who have need of it.
I am no expert in religion, but to me, that seems the most sensible, logical viewpoint on the matter. :)

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I love what Rebecca D. posted. The time will come when no one can be buried. We as a Nation are running out of space. Frankly, I really like the idea of being blown out to sea, or dropped off a cliff over looking some beautiful meadow. We started as dust, we should end as dust. Both my mother and father's wishes were to be cremated. I have my mother's ashes in a special place. I hold it sometimes and can feel her spirit. Hogwash...some might say but the thought of some one I love rotting away in a coffin is extremely offensive to me.