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Originally posted by Nina:As I'm typing this, I'm unaware of any major religion that discourages organ donation, so I assume donating your entire body is also A-OK.

Hasidic (at least many of them) and perhaps some other flavors of Jews consider it to be contrary to Jewish burial law.

Think of those sects that send teams out to accident scenes with tweezers to collect tissue fragments. They aren’t donating organs.

I know cremation, embalming, and autopsy are violations of Jewish law (or so I hear, I'm no authority), so it would make sense that any kind of dismemberment would be also against Jewish law.

Observant Jews are buried in plain pine boxes with the idea that their remains will become a part of the earth.