Can you donate organs and still have an open casket funeral?

Religious Perspectives on Organ Donations Before I give you my answer on this question I have done a little search to help us see into the issue of organ donation. Interesting question you have asked here brother. The first web page I found on this is quite good for it lists 24 different religious organizations and it appears that these ones have issued their statements regarding this issue. Some organizations have left the decision up to the individual; others have agreed totally with organ donation and support it wholeheartedly. <a href="http://www.donatelifenj.org/get-the-facts/religious-perspectives.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.donatelifenj.org/get-the-fact…</a> Here is a direct quote from the above link. Most Christian faiths realize that this is up to individual conscience and scripturally there doesn’t appear to be much against this idea. “All major religions have issued statements that either express support for organ donation or state that organ donation is a matter of ...  more

Yes you can have an open-casket after donating organs, and eye tissue, too. I have personally helped dress people who had donated skin, too, and they are clothed in a plastic zip-up "suit" over which their burial clothing can be placed. The retinas are covered by the closed eye-lids, and the other organs are replaced by "stuffing" so as to enable the body to resemble the shape it had before. These donated organs bring life, sight, and good health to the recipients, and can bring peace to the family of the donor - letting them know that their loved one "lives on" in others - giving life from death, as it were. It's not ooky or icky, but a very profound statement about the value of life. You are more than a dead animal, too. Although, I believe we should have more respect for all living things.  more

Sure. Shouldn't be a problem. Of course if the organ you donated was your skin, some of the mourners might get a little uncomfortable at an open-casket service.  more

They DO sew you up after y'know, and dress your body before a funeral. It's not like they'd leave you naked and still opened up.  more

Sure. But then it becomes sort of a "grab bag" funeral, with everybody just taking the organs that they need....  more