Body Ethics–Alex, Allie, James, and Claire
- The idea of the possession of your body after death
- Is organ donation uncanny? Many people think so.
- You have to opt into it.
- Society assumes you contain control of your body after death even if it could be beneficial to someone else.
- This idea can also apply to stem cells.
- How do one’s religious beliefs affect his or her opinions on all of this?
- http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/why-dont-people-want-to-donate-their-organs/382297/
- In the United States alone, 21 people die everyday waiting or an organ transplant.
- Stem cells are extracted from embryos, and some people consider it homicide. Some people consider them human beings, and, therefore, they think the process involves the destruction of a human being.
- www.pewforum.org/2008/07/17/stem-cell-research-at-the-crossroads-of-religion-and-politics/
- How do you define a human life?
- What counts?
