Posted on 16 Dec 2019. Share

Is It Good to Donate Our Organs and Choose Electric Cremation Instead of Traditional Cremation?

[Smt. Priyanka Seethepalli asked: It is considered wrong if someone choses to donate organs and go through electric cremation after they die? Is it alright in terms of skipping the traditional way of being cremated? What all rituals should their family members follow before and after the electric cremation?]

Swami replied: Donating organs after death is a deed of merit and not a defect or sin. The cremation rituals have nothing to do with the absence of an organ in the body. Since the entire body is destroyed, presence or absence of an organ is meaningless and the rituals are not affected by this. People with half knowledge and half ignorance speak such own poetry to confuse public.

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