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Should Christians be organ donors?

Nick

Nick

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Should Christians be organ donors?

We haven't discussed this in a while, and we don't want the cremation thread going off topic either.

So, should Christians be organ donors? Does the Bible speak about this in any way? What do you think?
 
i see no problem with that. just use wisdom those organ harvesters. that tend to act like buzzards, the person aint even declared dead and they want you to sign away the right to get those organs. that's why i call them harvesters.

i've seen how they treated a freind of mine.
 
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If It helps to save someone's life, I don't think God will be against that. It's useless to have all part of the body if the heart's attitude before God is not right, or the spirit not saved. Jesus Himself said to pluck out the eyes or cut off the hand that sin.

Matthew 5:29-30
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
 
While we're alive, our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit, but after we're dead? The Bible says that "the flesh counts for nothing" and "the body is dead because of sin", so why not use it to help someone?
 
VertigoAge said:
While we're alive, our body is a temple for the Holy Spirit, but after we're dead? The Bible says that "the flesh counts for nothing" and "the body is dead because of sin", so why not use it to help someone?
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I agree. I think it is a very decent thing to do - to help someone else with literally your own body.


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But how's this - how about when you're alive? There was a teenage guy on TV here a few months ago, and he was only 16 or something, and he donated both of his eyes and a heap of other organs while he was alive, to help others. Talk about sacrifice!
 
Nick said:
But how's this - how about when you're alive? There was a teenage guy on TV here a few months ago, and he was only 16 or something, and he donated both of his eyes and a heap of other organs while he was alive, to help others. Talk about sacrifice!
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:crazy Wow, they allowed him to do that at such a young age? What's the story behind that?


As far as organ donating, I'm fer it! Anyone can use anything that they can. I'll be finished with it, awaiting my resurrected and wholly restored (restored to pre-Fall goodness) body. :thumb
 
I am totally in support organ donation, and have signed up to be one.

One thing that a friend of mine has done is go even farther and be a bone marrow donor. You have to be healthy and alive to do that. I helps the truly sick, and it is mostly children who need it. It is also very painful to donate. She got called about a year ago. She was in agony after, but the kid lived and is doing well. I don't think my friend has fully recovered yet, but she feels that she did the work of the lord, and says she would will do it again.
 
jasoncran said:
if you donate one organ they will take all that are salvagable upon death.
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As far as i know, they can only take what You say they can. Better take things to a good lawyer. As for as being a doner, i won't need my body parts anyhow where i'm going.
 
that's what i was told by a friend of mine whose daughter died, she only donated her eyes. she was left in the morgue for days while they harvested her organs. she looked twice her size when she was laid to rest, she was only 110 lbs at death, not 220!
 
Jason, here in Australia they can only take what you have said beforehand. If you haven't specified, I think they just consult the family. But it could be different in Florida.
 
So, do you guys give blood?

I can't donate blood or organs because of the chemotherapy I had, but I see nothing wrong with it. I see organ donation as a good thing!
 
I pass out whenever I have a blood test, so the option isn't very attractive to me. Perhaps someday I'll man up and do the right thing. :)

It must be frustrating for people like you Brian who want to give blood but can't. And then we've got people who can but don't.
 
Nick said:
I pass out whenever I have a blood test, so the option isn't very attractive to me. Perhaps someday I'll man up and do the right thing. :)

It must be frustrating for people like you Brian who want to give blood but can't. And then we've got people who can but don't.
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I use to give blood all the time. The other day I was going into Golden Corral(restaurant) and they were giving away free dinners with a blood donation. When they asked me I just told them no thanks. I use to stop and explain, but I felt some thought I was making an excuse,lol. :shrug

Chuck Norris donates blood everyday, but never his own.

Chuck Norris went to give blood, he asked for a machete and a 50gallon drum. :D
 
GojuBrian said:
So, do you guys give blood?

I can't donate blood or organs because of the chemotherapy I had, but I see nothing wrong with it. I see organ donation as a good thing!
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like you i cant, i did. that ban on gay sex thing got me for the rest of my life :verysad
 
I can't either because of the mad cow disease scare. I donated it once, and 2 weeks later the red cross issued a ban on blood for people exposed to the disease. Hmmm, maybe they found something they didn't like :o

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Nick said:
I pass out whenever I have a blood test, so the option isn't very attractive to me. Perhaps someday I'll man up and do the right thing. :)
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I pass out too. I gave blood twice, each time I fainted. It had nothing to do with me being squeamish or anything, and I followed all the directions exactly. I once lived with a gal who organized blood drives for the Red Cross. She took me out to lunch, told me exactly what I should eat, we waited just the right amount of time, she took me to the blood drive, they hooked me up and I was totally fine. Then I was finished and munching on crackers and juice, when the next thing I knew I was in a little room, laying on a cot. I guess I knocked over some juice and banged into someone one the way to the floor. My roommate was more than a bit put out with me, people fainting tend to cause others to have second thoughts.

My roommate was so convinced that, even though I didn't think I was overly nervous (or nervous at all for that matter) I was too "worked up" the first time around, that I readily signed up to give blood again the next time a blood drive came round. The second faint wasn't exactly as spectacular as the first, no spilled juice or banging into people. I simply slid off of a chair and onto the floor.

I'm not exactly sure why I pass out when I give blood. But, I do. So, I don't give blood anymore.

If I could, I would.
 
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