Nature and importance of transplant surgery

Question 1

Two main types of organ transplant

Answer 1

First type uses organs from a dead person .

The second type uses organs from a living donor. The person is able to survive without what they are donating e.g. one kidney

Question 2

Why is transplant surgery important?

Answer 2

• Cures life threatening diseases
• Could save over 4000 extra lives each year if enough donors were found.
• People needing transplants rises by 8% each year
• Let’s people help others even after they die

Question 3

Most Christians agree but object to rich people being able to buy them from the poor because…

Answer 3

• Believe in the immortality of the soul. Body parts not needed after death.
• Jesus said ‘love thy neighbour’.
• Is a charitable act that fulfils Jesus’ teaching to ‘love another’.
• Shows people’s gratitude for God’s gift of live.

Question 4

Against organs from dead people but allow donated organs from living relatives because…

Answer 4

• The heart is central to who a person is and that is who God created, so it would be wrong to replace it.
• Taking things from the dead could be seen as playing God.

Question 5

Some Christians do not agree with transplants at all because…

Answer 5

• Takes away from the idea of the ‘sanctity of life’.

* Transplant surgery interferes with God’s plan for each individual.