Body Bequest Guidance
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 8. The Church of England has advised members who bequeath their bodies for transplant surgery to make their wishes abundantly clear to relatives. . The advice is contained in a statement of pastoral guidance from Anglican bishops. It deals with ecclesiastical questions on the disposal of bodies, and does not discuss what it describes as “the major ethical issue of the wisdom or rightness of transplants.” It says people who want to give organs for transplant surgery should tell their relatives, apart from anything in their wills, which would not be readily available during critical hours for transplant surgery.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 17
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