Rev. Danny Fisher

The Associated Press reports that Japan has “lifted a ban on organ donations from children, reversing a restriction that created such a dearth of small organs in the country that young patients were forced to seek transplants abroad.” The report states:

The law will allow children, defined as those under 15, who are brain dead to donate their organs – a sea change in this country, where organ donation is sensitive because of Buddhist beliefs that consider the body sacred and reject its desecration.

Earlier this year, I wrote a lengthy post about similar beliefs in Taiwan that the Tzu Chi Foundation has taken the lead in addressing so as to benefit medical science.