To answer Chayim’s questions. Yes! you don’t feel anger when you are in pain, but imagine (just assuming you are dead) this, to remove your organs, doctor has to perform operation on you, he is going to use knife to slowly cut into your skin, muscles, bones. Now, at that moment, IF you can’t stand the pain, you will most likely want to say ‘STOP!’ but no one can hear you (remember you are dead?), your emotion would most probably turn to hatred towards doctor’s ignorance (you may not realise you are dead!), that is where the ‘anger’ starts….need I elaborate more?

It just like sometime when people are ignoring you when you need help, you may feel angry sometime!

Perhaps I did not explain it very clearly.

As I said, there is no YES or NO answer to organ donation. If you are daring and hero-ish, by all mean do it (btw, organ donees need you!). After all that is your choice.

What I have just said may not be true, but just thought of sharing some potential facts with everyone so that everyone is informed and be prepared to take whatever challenges (pain!) everyone may have when your time comes!

Good luck!

1) life people don’t feel pain if they are anaesthetized.

2) donate your body for medical students. They’re kept for a while. By the time time they get to you, it’ll be well past the 12 hour limit

3) donate your blood instead. You should do this while still alive.

I’m not Buddhist, and I’m not dead yet. So I can’t tell you whether dead people will get mad/angry when in great pain. But people do not usually get angry/mad when in pain. I’ve broken a few bones and they were very painful. I’ve gotten angry too in the past. But the two never go together. The reason my be physiological.

Go to any hospital, you’ll find plenty of people in pain. The really sick and badly injured never get angry. If there are any angry people there (perhaps they’ve waited and waited, and their turn never come, only to have people who comes after them get treated first), it’s usually those who accompany them. I’ve been both. I can tell you that it’s not merely they cannot express anger. They don’t feel it. At least I didn’t.

According to one of the famous buhhist monk, master Jing Kong (净空), it is a very good deed to donate organs, but the issue is, when one person die, the soul will still stay in the body for 12 hours, even the heart has stop, the dead person (the soul) still can hear and sense. If at this time (within the 12 hours), a doctor operates and opens the body to take out the reusable parts like heart, kidney, etc, the soul will feel the pain. In fact great pain. When someone in great pain, the person would feel angry/mad, when that happen, the anger （瞋恨心）is actually matches with three bad realms (三恶道) frequency, and chances of reincarnate to this bad realms is very high. Although you have good deed, your great anger may supersede the good deed at that moment.

I am neither discourage or encourage all of you donating your organ. You have to make your own informed decision.

Unless I know I can tolerate great pain (which is very unlikely! ha) without causing great anger, I WILL not donate organs again.

For those who aim to be born in pureland after life, why risk your future by saving one or two life? You can save billions when you become bodhisattva (菩萨) in the pureland later.

Regards

April is National Donate Life Month over here and I thought I’d pass along this video we recently completed in case you’re interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEsE6riIVc

Enjoy and thanks for supporting the issue.

I wanted to donate every 2 weeks, but the National Blood Center says B -ve is rare and valuable, and tells me to go home and wait for their call. (They call about 3 times a year. I don’t understand their reasoning though. If anything, O should be the most valuable, and they’re quite common.

woeiblog #3, no need to worry about that. There’s no incentive for the doctor to do that. Well, very little anyway. Even if the doctor has a close relative who really needs a heart, there’s no point killing off random people without tissue matching them first. And if you are going to go to the trouble of tissue matching random strangers, and killing them off, faking an organ donor card wouldn’t be something they worry about too much.

If you’re over 21, I believe you have the rights to make such choices by urself.

Anyway kudos to you LiewCF!

I register my name as a donor at a Buddhist temple in KL.

National Transplant Resource Centre should run more roadshow to the public for recruitment & awareness purposes.

可以帮人，不过多数长辈不会答应的。

donating organs is the gift of life. everybody should do it.