Organs and spirits?

Question

What does it mean about your spirit if your an organ donor? Can you still come back if you've got some organs or organ missing?

Answer 1

Sure, why not?

Since no one has ever postulated an evidence-based definition of the "spirit", it's all just speculation.  So go with the version that gives you the most comfort.  However, don't expect people to take you seriously, so just keep it to yourself.

Answer 2

yeah you can come back, but like chris rock says: " then you gotta go kill some kid in illinois to get your eyes back."

Answer 3

If you aren't considering getting a transplant you've no real investment in the question and all answers would merely be unfounded opinion and rhetorical rubber-stamping of our own preconcieved notions.

However, if you're considering getting a transplant you might wish to examine all sides to the issue.  There's another body of opinion about this if you search around for it:

Transplants?

by Richard Hiltner, M.D.

". . .The problem is a nagging, recurrent "feeling" that something is not quite right. Perhaps the best way to examine this feeling is to write about them to others whom I feel might answer my concerns. To be more precise, let me outline some specific factors.

"As a student of the ancient wisdom now called Theosophy, I realize that a human being is composed of at least seven principle-elements and that the highest of these is Atman or the Higher Self. I would rather not elaborate the rest of these principle-elements, but simply state that there is a gradual narrowing, coarsening of the consciousness or energy-force and matter until the physical body [vehicle] is reached. With this said, how then does using the donor organ of the decease or living person affect psycho-magnetically [if you will allow me to use this word] both the donor and the recipient.  . ."

Answer 4

uh, first of all, your physical body is irrellevent to your spirit. Second, you cant come back period, even if you have all your body parts. This is not how the world works.

Did you think that you would come back as a ghost without a heart, and then your ghost would die of a heart attack?

Come on, this is just sillyness.

Answer 5

Good question! Wish I had thought to ask it!

I've wondered about this too..the stories people tell about "experiencing" the dead person's feelings when they receive a transplant. Maybe it's kind of like when you hug or shake hands or touch someone and you pick up their feelings and/or thoughts. I think they take these organs before the person is totally dead, don't they ? Maybe that has something to do with it.

Spirits evidently get "attached" to houses & people & things & seem to come back to visit them or stay with them...so why not a part of their body? Maybe they still want to be alive..or don't realize they're really dead...so they kinda become "alive" again through the other person. I'm just guessing. No way for anyone to know the truth about this. I would think it would be hard for the loved ones of the deceased person to have that person "so near and yet so far away"...in another person. I think that would be a real "mind trip". I guess that's why lots of times they don't tell them who got the organs.

But remember..when they do an autopsy...I think they take out part of the organs too. But then, that organ is totally dead by that time. Still, it's part of that person's body. So I would think it would have something to do with the organ being tranferred while it's still "alive".(Or maybe these organs AREN'T "alive" still..IDK.)

Answer 6

Hello

You have muddled the physical with the spiritual. The physical body simply houses the spirit - once gone the spirit has no attachment to any part of it.

Pam