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**sposicke** · 03-30-2011, 11:22 PM

I have signed the legal permission to take from me anything that will remain healthy for transplantation. If there is an improvement the life of another person, to say, to see, or not to be attached to a dialysis machine, I do not find wrong to have taken this decision. Curiously, the medical staff gave me guide lines so to keep liver, kidneys, lungs, eyes, heart, and so on as healthy as I can.

Another complex aspect of this issue that needs to be investigated is the nature of mind, its relation to the physical constituents, and the state of mind ( located at the heart, traditionally, for Buddhists ) in the case of organ transplants. What psychological adjustments or temperament changes are entailed when another person's organ is transplanted into one's own body ? These important bio-ethical questions need to be looked at from various religious and cultural perspectives, as well as the physiological and economic.

I have heard about this. Does this implies that we all will acquire the character, temper and emotional trait of another person? So there is a kind of "self" that is transmitted from the donated organ to that person? Maybe this is much more in the realm of popular imaginary than a fact, but I don't know. I hope not. It could be counterproductive if somebody acquire Kaarine's traits!

03-30-2011, 11:22 PM	#6
sposicke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 512 Senior Member	I have signed the legal permission to take from me anything that will remain healthy for transplantation. If there is an improvement the life of another person, to say, to see, or not to be attached to a dialysis machine, I do not find wrong to have taken this decision. Curiously, the medical staff gave me guide lines so to keep liver, kidneys, lungs, eyes, heart, and so on as healthy as I can. Another complex aspect of this issue that needs to be investigated is the nature of mind, its relation to the physical constituents, and the state of mind ( located at the heart, traditionally, for Buddhists ) in the case of organ transplants. What psychological adjustments or temperament changes are entailed when another person's organ is transplanted into one's own body ? These important bio-ethical questions need to be looked at from various religious and cultural perspectives, as well as the physiological and economic. I have heard about this. Does this implies that we all will acquire the character, temper and emotional trait of another person? So there is a kind of "self" that is transmitted from the donated organ to that person? Maybe this is much more in the realm of popular imaginary than a fact, but I don't know. I hope not. It could be counterproductive if somebody acquire Kaarine's traits!
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