to accept medical interventions whose burdens outweigh the probable benefits. For example, when medical care merely preserves bodily functions, without hope of returning a patient to mental awareness, it is futile and may, in good conscience, be withheld or withdrawn. Similarly, life-extending medical treatments may be omitted or stopped if they only add to the patient's suffering or needlessly prolong the process of dying. Additionally, Loma University Medical Center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution, described as "integrating health, science and Christian faith" and specializes in organ transplantation. Loma Linda’s Transplant Institute provides adult and pediatric heart, kidney, liver, and pancreas programs, and performed a combined total of 138 deceased and living donor transplants in 2005. Shinto In Shinto, the deceased’s body is considered to be impure and dangerous, and thus quite powerful. "In folk belief context, injuring a dead body is a serious crime," according to E. Namihira in his article, "Shinto Concept Concerning the Dead Human Body." "To this day it is difficult to obtain consent from bereaved families for organ donation or dissection for medical education or pathological anatomy the Japanese … regard them all in the sense of injuring a dead body." Families are often concerned that they not injure the the relationship between the dead person and the bereaved itai, people.6 Sikhs
to accept medical interventions whose burdens outweigh the probable benefits. For example, when medical care merely preserves bodily functions, without hope of returning a patient to mental awareness, it is futile and may, in good conscience, be withheld or withdrawn. Similarly, life-extending medical treatments may be omitted or stopped if they only add to the patient's suffering or needlessly prolong the process of dying. Additionally, Loma University Medical Center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution, described as "integrating health, science and Christian faith" and specializes in organ transplantation. Loma Linda’s Transplant Institute provides adult and pediatric heart, kidney, liver, and pancreas programs, and performed a combined total of 138 deceased and living donor transplants in 2005. Shinto In Shinto, the deceased’s body is considered to be impure and dangerous, and thus quite powerful. "In folk belief context, injuring a dead body is a serious crime," according to E. Namihira in his article, "Shinto Concept Concerning the Dead Human Body." "To this day it is difficult to obtain consent from bereaved families for organ donation or dissection for medical education or pathological anatomy … the Japanese regard them all in the sense of injuring a dead body." Families are often concerned that they not injure the itai, the relationship between the dead person and the bereaved people.6 Sikhs
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