In many countries you have to opt out of being an organ donor, and it results in much higher donation rates. I wish it were the case in the US.
I wonder how much of people’s resistance to it steps from the old theological ideas that if your body parts aren’t all together at the time of the Second Coming, you won’t be able to rise up and go to heaven – or, at least, you’d be hanging around heaven without your heart, liver and spleen.
I’d like them to take any possibly-useful organ my body, and then cremate it. The ashes could go under a tree if anyone wanted them to be, but I’m not picky.
