I am very much ok with donating my organs - but my DH is a bit the same as yours Dusty. He had a cousin who was in a terrible accident and the Dr's wanted the family to make a decision about turning off life support and donating his organs. The family didn't, and thier son is alive and enjoys a reasonable quality of life today - but that was 20 yrs ago and the process for acquiring organs is more thouroughly tested today. The person has to be "brain dead" and this decision or oppinion giben by three (i think) independant Dr's. I wonder, if a person is brain dead, then perhaps their soul has already gone to it's spiritual home? Although we know we have a soul - it's not a physical organ that can be transplanted into the life of another, our soul might just be our whole being, and the body just parts of it. Some people I know worry about donating their hearts, or recieving hearts because of what we hold in our hearts - you know like love for others, deep secrets etc. But anatomically there is no such place in the physical heart where these things are - so again, maybe the soul is much bigger than the heart - like it is our being. Anyway - so to rattle on, but I thought maybe I could be helpful. I am Christian and I feel like this, that my life and the life of those I love is a gift, and if by dyong we can gift the gift to others well lets do it.
p.s. this is just my veiw and i agree with Rach in that we have to love and respect others (especially DH) veiw on things - its was their unique differance that attracted us to them in the first place!
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