Are you oppose to donate your organs after death? Why or why not?
438380
no, if I am in the brain dead situation I would want them to harvest my organs after my family says goodbye.  It would beat the way they stop feeding you and let you starve to death.
620074
When this flesh dies, the flesh, a vessel made of dust from the earth, goes back to the ground where it came and the soul, our true body returns to The Father who gave it. \nCremation should be an individuals decision.  In my opinion, it all, the flesh vessel ends up in the same place, the ground.  If one, after passing can donate parts that others can use, I believe that's a wonderful gift.  Today with the cost of a funeral and burial, I see no reason not to be cremated.  That's the way I want it. Why give some funeral home all that money when ones family could use it more?  What ever your decision, your family should honor your wishes.
252737
I'ed first make sure an organ donation was set up and would be taken care of. Then I'ed make sure my brother would get all my money and stuff and would be taken care of. My funeral would be a party, I would write out little requests of things I didn't have time to do, everything from sky diving to adopting a child, I would ask the people that loved me to pick one and do it, along with something they always wanted to do, then get together a year after I died and share with each other what they did and how it changed them. You're right if we live like we were dying and we take care of the things and people in our life today, not only can we make our life worth living, but our loved ones can help us live on, not only in their memories, but their actions.
632030
Me!\n\nThe reason why is that i do believe in life after death, and my fear is that once you know that all your actions will one day be judged by a higher being the freedom of the world seems pointless if there is retribution.
365766
An organ transporter? Or an organ donor? To donate organs, you can check the box on your drivers-liscense application, but make sure you discuss your wishes with your family because even if it says "organ donor" on your drivers liscense your family still has the last say. If you want to transport organs, become a surgeon.
712134
Your body parts are invaluable to you, and to those lucky recipients who would recieve one after your death.  As you are aware, it is illegal to sell organs and illegal to purchase them.  Anyone who would pay you is already breaking the law, and at that point you become more of a liability to them to keep alive after the organ is harvested.  They also tend not to be really careful doing the surgery, inept is the word that comes to mind most often, and you of course would be the loser.  Which still makes your organs more valuable to you inside you than sold to the highest bidder.  Aside from being illegal, it's immoral practice no decent doctor would take part in.  Even if somebody did know more information, you can bet they certainly wouldn't discuss it on an answer forum such as this.  Conducting illegal business via the web is a bit risky.
506125
It is up to the parents and loved ones to determine the fate of a newborn relative to an organ donation. But wouldn't it be a wonderful world if during this time of grief people were able to accept the fate of their child and then be able to be compassionate to others with critically ill children, who will share their same fate, by donating an organ or organs to save a life. In the short life span of the newborn it will have come into this world and saved anothers life. What a noble and unselfish life to have led. I have 3 children, all healthy, Thank God, whom if any were to die I would hope I would help another suffering parent with the gift of life. In times of utter dispair I always ask myself what would Jesus ask me to due and then try to do it.
1179720
I think you are able to donate certain tissues or organs. You should check with your doctor. In response to the poster below me, that is not true at all. I have done numerous studies about organ donation and donors are treated just the same as nondonors. Please consider becoming an organ donor if you can. There are so many people who need organs, and people die everyday because they don't get one.
316816
There already is a market for body parts and the usual "organ grinders" unfortinatly few enforcement agentcys moniter these activities as many "Organ Procurement Agentcies" travel overseas and purchase parts from third world countries for low prices (approx $250.00usd for a kidney) and then resell them for prices in the thousands. It is a highly illegal and lucrative trade.\n\nTo legalize this is not a great idea as it would turn into a pricing war and with the illegal market already obtaining organs at low prices overseas the money to be made for people selling would be minimum at best.
597916
Yes, you can. My mother smoked most of her life and died of heart disease. They could use her skin and eyes and some bone, and I donated them. She was older, so most of the other organs weren't good for donation.
1008596
Yes it is allowed, and I am one.  Saving the life of another is a very high honor in Islam.  Life is sacred.  I am a muslim woman and I signed the back of my Driver's License that states that I wish to donate my organs.  God willing, I can save somebody in death with my heart, brain, or other items.  I don't think my lungs would be too good, though, since I have chronic bronchitis and have had pneumonia.
46494
No the sprit has already moved on what happens to the shell after we die will make no difference to the spirit.  After we are dead there is no more pain and we would not spiritually feel the act of cremantion, organ donation, autopsy, or embalming.  None of these things will be felt by us after our spirit has left our body at the time of death.
108598
I ould make all arrangements, so my family doesn't have to. I would also check in with the hospital so that I could be typed for organ donation. Somebody will get another chance to live because of my death.
319830
According to my dad's wishes, we donated his organs, and our family incurred no cost.....\n\nAre there any costs to my family for donation?\nThe donor’s family does not pay for the cost of the organ donation. All costs related to donation of organs and tissues are paid by the recipient, usually through insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.\n\nhttp://www.organdonor.gov/faq.html\n\nDoes a donor's family have to pay the cost of donation?\nNo. There is no question of any payment at all. The NHS meets the costs related to the donation of organs.\n\nhttp://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/questions/answers/answers_10.jsp#q30
489826
Uhm, if you are dead and donating your organs, you arent around to get any grant money anyway...
868082
Do you really trust that it won't be abused?  Organ harvesting is a big money business.  All a Dr. would have to say is "He/she asked me to."  In China, the condemn thousands of people to death each week, just to harvest and sell their organs.  Think about that.  Or, watch "Solent Green."
1182372
The one poster noted rejection issues, and there are numerous ones. Naturally, animal organ transplantation can never replace human organ transplantation (though stem cell research does offer some hope to replace the latter in 50-100 years).\n\nIt is moral to sacrifice an animal life to save a human life from the perspective that a human life is more valuable than that of an animal