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Clergy appeal over organ donors

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Posted: June 22, 2009.

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Leaders of the U.K.’s main religions appealed to their followers to support a campaign to register as organ donors. The Church of England, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the head of the U.K. Hindu Council and the Chief Rabbi have all said that organ donation after death is both permitted and encouraged by their respective religions. The Church of England went farther, calling it a “Christian duty.”

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Good! Positive efforts by the religous should be welcomed.

posted on June 24, 2009
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2. Bernadette Kennedy

No, not good. My mum will go mad. I got my ears pierced when I was sixteen and she told me I would burn in hell for defiling my body. She was quite sweet about it though and did apologise for not having mentioned it sooner. The Catholic Church teaches that it is a form of blasphemy to be buried without all your bits. The new Archbish is just trying to make himself look good at the high tables of Oxford.

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