Organ Donation

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What various religions say about donating body parts/NorthJersey.com/Hackensack/NJ/USA/11-Aug-05/Quakers (Religious Society of Friends): No official position on donation, believe organ donation and transplantation is a matter of individual conscience. The one thing that's clear and constant about organ donation is that there are not nearly enough healthy organs to go around.

While nearly 90,000 people in the United States are awaiting a life-saving organ transplant, as of the end of July, only 4,700 people had donated organs, according to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), which oversees the national waiting list.