Religion and organ donations...
The BBC reports that fewer people are willing to donate their organs for transplants, and at least one researcher says that a "decline in Christianity" is to blame.
Dr Mike Fitzpatrick will tell an audience at the Royal College of Physicians in London, that people are becoming too worried about keeping their bodies intact after death.
"This is partly to do with a decline in religion and a retreat to an almost pre-Christian period," he said.
"The Christians have little regard for the mortal coil, but when that sense is lost then people become pre-occupied about burying their body parts."
How interesting. I guess when you believe that this — this temporal, temporary life, that is — is all you have, it becomes really, really important. Internal conflict (no pun intended) over organ donation is the least of one's worries in this case, I would think.
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