Unless medically unfit or strongly opposed by the other family members, a great majority of the parents, particularly the mothers, first volunteered to donate a kidney. Significantly, the sons had more opportunities to receive a kidney from either parent than daughters regardless of marital status....
This could be a factor when family are faced with the decision or not to allow their parent’s organs to be donated. Shinto is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the people of Japan. Shinto’s believe that the body is pure and gathers impurities throughout life. A cadaver is ...