I know that I will no longer be in my body after I die. I have a very rare decease, that there is no cure for. I know that after death, I will no longer be in this body, I won't be needing it. Maybe they can take this body after my death and learn from it to help someone live a fuller, happier, healthier life. I have not yet made up my mind, my children and grandchildren won't be needing a grave site to visit as they live many states away. What do you think?
2007-04-12 09:40:07 · 25 answers · asked by Pamela V 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a christian, I don't think it matter what happens to our bodies after we die, we're not in them anymore. Our bodies are just a shell. I have an organ donor card in my wallet, I don't see how that would be non-christian. If your body can help someone else down the road, its a good thing to do. Believe it or not, all christians aren't anti-scientific discovery, as a matter of fact, most of us are pretty darn normal people. We even go to doctors, take asprin, have surgery, all kinds of medical stuff like that. I realize this will sound very strange, but some of us are even doctors.
I'm sorry you're suffering an incurable illness. I think what you're planning to do is quite commendable.
2007-04-12 09:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see nothing wrong with it. I'm in agreement with you that after we die, our bodies aren't needed anymore.
Funerals are not for the person who just died. They're for those we leave behind. I think that a closed/empty/non-existent casket is OK at a funeral when you've already described to everyone you love why and how your body will be used.
As a Christian, I recognize that it's a WHOLE LOT more important where I believe my parents are LIVING once they leave here than where their dead bodies are. I congratulate you for considering this option - and wish more people would do the same. Between this research and organ donations for transplanting, the world's health could be quite a bit better.
2007-04-12 09:50:16 · answer #2 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have my living trust all filled out. Whatever body parts can be used to help others... have at it!! I have my little red dot on my drivers license and everything. It's just an old tent. If someone can use the tent poles or ropes... go for it! I'll be getting a new mansion anyhow. :)
Pamela, if there is any good that can come out of researching your old tent in regard to this rare disease, it will be put on your account. Imagine, being with the Lord on that day, and Him saying to you, "Well done good and faithful servant, and oh, by the way, another person just benefited from your old tent." I think that would be awesome!
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2007-04-12 09:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that is a great thing. Your body is just a shell - you are more than just your body.
Maybe you will be able to help someone after you live a better life. My husband is an organ donor for that very reason. Don't worry God will be able to make you a new body when you are in heaven :)
You can have a grave site even if you don't have a body to put in it!
2007-04-12 09:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I feel the same way you do. While I do not have a rare disease, that I know of, I also plan to donate my body to a medical school or college. My thinking is that once I am dead my body will not do me any good anymore, might as well donate it so a medical or college student can learn something to help someone someday.
PS I am all for organ donation too.
PPS I have told both my wife and my mother of my wishes but am not sure that they realize that I am serious.
2007-04-12 09:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is a great idea. It is just a body and it is the soul that really matters. You would be helper others and restored in heaven so go for it.
I am an organ donor so I will be empty by the time they put me in the ground,
2007-04-12 09:48:20 · answer #6 · answered by The Voice Of Reason 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the most unselfish way to deal with your body after death. Your family has no expense and the whole world might benefit from new knowledge.
2007-04-12 09:44:48 · answer #7 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is awesome, since I will be studying from cadavers...
I don't believe we will get our physical bodies back, it is written that we will get a new body that doesn't get sick. So donate away, and I hope one day I can contribute to finding a cure for something...
2007-04-12 09:55:54 · answer #8 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that's a fine decision for you to make. Just be sure to talk with your lawyer to make sure your body goes to somewhere where that disease is researched, rather than in a cadaver lab where you're body would be some college student's anatomy homework.
2007-04-12 09:46:11 · answer #9 · answered by daisyk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is a very Christian thing to do. It is a vessel for our spirit. Once you evacuate, it is an empty vessel that could help another. Speaks of love. I don't understand burying a $6000.00 coffin. Land is scarce. Costs could be more effectively put to use. Merely my opinion.
2007-04-12 09:53:12 · answer #10 · answered by mythos_equidae 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋