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The Jewish Position on Organ donation is very complex. It involves the thin line between the Jewish mitzvah of saving a life and the prohibition of desecrating the body.
The Jewish law of pikuah nefesh obligates a Jew to provide an organ, providing there is no risk to the donor. ... (Tendler)
Since an organ donation is under no circumstances permitted if life threatening it is important to distinguish whether a person is by Jewish law dead or alive. ... Indeed, Jewish law does prohibit desecration of the body and gaining benefit from the body and delaying the burial of the body, but he mitzvah of "saving a life" is so paramount, that it supercedes other mitzvot so that it must supercede the prohibitions concerning desecrating the body; gaining benefit from the body and delaying the burial of the body (Kroot)
Organ donation is also only permitted in the case when an organ is needed for a specific, immediate transplant.
Approximate Word count = 640
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