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Summary of Question: | Donating Blood Or Organs |
Category: | General Sikhism |
Date Posted: | Monday, 4/03/2000 7:50 AM MDT |
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Dear One:
Sat Siri Akal. Yes, it is OK for any Sikh to donate blood or organs. Use searchwords "donating blood or organs" and search this Youth Forum for other replies on this.
As for cremation, the Sikh way of disposing of the dead is cremation and only cremation. Guruji mandated this as a way of reminding us that the body is just a vehicle for spirit, and that we must not be ATTACHED to the body as if there is no spirit. We do not take the physical body with us when we leave, and cremation reminds us (the living) of this.
Rab rakha,
-DKK