What religions forbid donating human organs?

I don't understand why any religion wouldn't allow you to help extend someone else's life

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The Jehovah's witnesses won't even let you donate blood nor recieve any blood donations. But they will use other methods of saline or plasma expanders if someone is in need. Blood is believed to be the life of a person and was not to be consumed that is why they believed that it was wrong to inject it as well interveniously. It was like having your doctor say no alcohol and then injecting it directly into your blood stream.

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Lucyintheskywithd iamonds	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:48AM What Pope John Paul II said on behalf of the One, Holy, Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: "[T]he Gospel of life is to be celebrated above all in daily living, which should be filled with self-giving love for others. . . . Over and above such outstanding moments, there is an everyday heroism, made up of gestures of sharing, big or small, which build up an authentic culture of life. A particularly praiseworthy example of such gestures is the donation of organs, performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope." Rated: +2Vote for this!
floridabreeze	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:02PM I tried donating a piano, but they wouldn"t take it! Rated: +2Vote for this!
snowlady	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:42AM I am Catholic. that is the only one I KNOW about, FOR A FACT. They used to look down on it, but not anymore. Rated: +2Vote for this!
lifeseemstobealla bouttv	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 5:30PM Christ gave His body for us, i hope i could do the same! Rated: +1Vote for this!
oozy	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:48AM I hear the Jehovah's are not to kind on it.. Rated: +1Vote for this!
atasteforsufferin g	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:53AM the only religion i know that forbids modern medicine is the jehovah's witnesses.... there may be more who knows? Rated: +1Vote for this!
porkchopsandwich	Posted Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:41PM Stupid ones. Rated: +1Vote for this!
secondschance	Posted Oct 29th, 2009 at 10:55AM The way I read my religious texts, it is a good deed to donate organs and tissue. Colorado's Donor Alliance has a great page on religious groups and ethnic need. http://www.donoralliance.org/info-page-16 JWs allow donation. Rated: +1Vote for this!

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