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encourage honesty or discourage & promote voluntary & truthful gift relationship?
Gift - Gifting of organ or not to give, to lend, repay, buy or sell organ are choices which leads us to social economic life. Forms & functions of giving embody moral social, psychological, religious, legal & aesthetic ideas.
Gift or giving organs may reflect, sustain, strengthen or loosen the cultural bonds. Gift is to buy peace, to express affection, regard, or loyalty to unify fulfill obligation, & rights symbolize human sentiments. Religious vies on organ transplant & relatives problems
Jains parsis also donates body after death but some communities have opposed it on religious grounds some believe that our bodies are the property of Allah & we can't donate things belongs to Allah ParasisJarthostra throw dead body as food for vultures. One person's body when donated can help upto two hundred people. 16 people die each day in U.S. because they could not get organ for transplant to prolong their lives.
Every religion believes in helping others but some religions are against donating parts of the body. Some believes that in next life you may not get whole body if not burnt as a whole. Organ transplantation is right to benefit people if we can, & wrong to harm. Organ transplant gives opportunity to use resources for beneficial purpose.
If resources are wasted we have powerful, moral reasons to avoid wastage.
Christianity teaches person may dispose of his body for benefit of others with noble desire to aid the sick & suffering. He can make decision with respect to his own body. If organs of deceased person can help save & improve the life of living person then such transplant is praiseworthy. There will be no shortage of organ if everyone feel to help such person after his death by donating his body. After death which is otherwise will burnt to ashes will be used to nearly 200 people. But problem is donor should not be declared dead prematurely. His death should not be hastened for selling organs & utilize by harming the donor. Donor must be dead before organs are removed from his body.
Transplant of organ from living donor another person is more complicated. Person may donate one kidney & still can survive but he shortens his life. because of overloading of work on one kidney. This sacrifice is only out of love. Person cant donate his eye while living & become blind, this impairs bodily function.
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