> "the California Supreme Court ruled that he had no entitlement to any =
> rights to his own cells after they had been removed
> from his body."

I must say I,too, find this rather disturbing and disrespectful.
In Jewish tradition, when one has lost a body part through amputation
or some other say, it is buried and when the person dies, he or she
is buried with it. I do not know if this is true of organs as well.
While the laws were orginally written before that was an issue,
I have no doubt that contemprary legal scholars have addressed the
issue.

Very different worldviews.
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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