Donating Organs after death

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Well you don’t want to donate them*** before!*** :rotfl:

Humbug. Kidneys. Oh well…Last I checked it was A-Okay.
 
Cremation: as long as you’re not doing it to go against God, it is permitted.
 
They can have my organs if they are of any use after I die - that’s on my drivers licence I think. It’s a respectful thing to do because it may save someone’s life or make their existance tolerable in some way. The Church does not disallow it as long as the body is not disrespected.

Cremation has been allowed for decades but I think there is a proviso about how the ashes may be disposed of.

Rove
 
roveau said:
Cremation has been allowed for decades but I think there is a proviso about how the ashes may be disposed of.

Rove
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Cremains must be buried in a cemetary, placed in a permanent sealed nich in a mausoleum, or dropped into the sea in a container. They may not be kept in an urn on the mantle in the living room, scattered, seperated into different containers and given to different relatives, or put into the sea without being in a container. They should be interred soon after creamation but may be held on to for a short time in the case of a person say dying in one place, having a funeral said there, and then bringing the creamains to another place for burial. Or cremating the remains in one place and bringing the cremains to another for the funeral…we are finding this option to be happening more and more with our parishioners who have moved to the South but their children are here and want their parents buried up North.
 
The main problem with donating organs is the fact that organs are rarely useful if the donor is dead.

So, if there is a donor who is “technically” dead - ie, brain “dead”, then they just rob the organs. In spite of the fact that there are many examples of people making full recoveries from such vegetable states.

But why would anyone do that? Erm: money? power? “greater good of the greater number”?

Dunno - but there is no way someone who respects life in the true Catholic sense of the word, can ignore these issues.
 
For the sake of clarity, I am talking about the donation of things like hearts, lungs, etc.

Obviously, a person can function 100% with only one kidney, or with the donation of some blood - in that case, the donation is fine, and I would say, noble…
 
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