Why Religious People May Have Problems with Transplant Surgery

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Most Christians agree with transplant surgery however some are opposed

to transplant surgery. They disagree with using organs from dead

people but accept using organs as donated by living relatives. Jews

have a similar view to Christians on this matter. Muslims however are

totally opposed to it some Muslims do allow transplant surgery using

organs from a living donor as long as the donor is a close relative.

More Hindus are for transplant surgery than against and mainly will

carry donor cards.

Christians that are opposed to transplant surgery believe that

transplants can ignore the sanctity of life, God created us in his

image so transplanting organs means you interfering with what God

intended and therefore “playing God”. Organs cannot be paid for

because this is exploiting the poor which is strictly forbidden in the

Bible.

The majority of Muslims are opposed to transplant surgery because the

Muslim belief in the sanctity of life means that all life belongs to

God and that God is the only on who has the right to take life. In the

Qu’ran the Muslim holly book, it says that God has created the entire

body so to take parts or organs from one body and transplant it into

another is to act as God. To act as God is the greatest sin in Islam

so you can see how the majority of transplant surgery is strictly

forbidden. As well as this the Shari’ah another Muslim holly book

teaches that after death nothing should be removed from the body. They

are also totally opposed to post-mortems. Muslims have very specific

death rituals this is why this is extremely important and therefore

organs should not be removed from Muslims that have passed away. Due

to Muslims being so opposed to transplant surgery they would also

agree with any none religious arguments against transplants.

The few Jews, which are against transplant surgery, have similar

reasons to Muslim beliefs. They also believe that we’ve God has

created the entire body so to transplant organs is playing God.

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