Is Organ Donation considered as Sedekah Jariah?

I have not read any articles lately which promote our organs for donation to the needy. Is the subject too sensitive? I'm sure it won't be such a case when you or your family members are in need of it.

I have with me here a booklet entitles Mati Otak & Pendermaan Organ. When your brain is dead, even though your heart may still be beating, but you are still considered dead. This is since it is the brain that controls all the bodily functions. Normally brain dead patients are put on ventilator and is in coma. If you decide to sign up as donor, they can switch the machine off faster since the fate is still the same, you are already dead.

If you are a Muslim, we all know that all that we have are only loans from Allah. Shall we give some that we have to benefit others? I think that organ donation is part of sedekah jariah, or pencen akhirat. But I have not got a concrete proof of this. Perhaps our Jabatan Agama can do more promotion on this, to benefit the patients in this world, and the donor in the hereafter.

Organs that you can donate are heart, liver, skin, bone, pancreas, cornea, hepar (hati) and kidney. Would you sign up? I am more likely to sign up once I am brain dead lah!
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