Autopsy, Anatomical Dissection and Transplantation 24item Is blood money payable in the matter of using the cornea of a dead person to be transplanted in the eye of another person, noting that corneal transplant is done mostly without the permission of the deceased’s guardian? Assuming that it is payable, how much should be paid for both the cornea and the eye? To take the pulse count of a patient there has to be some sort of direct contact with the body. If it is feasible for a nurse from the opposite sex to do these wearing gloves, can he/she still do it without the gloves? If a person is suffering from a fatal illness and doctors say he will die soon, is it permissible to remove certain organs from his body, such as heart, kidney, etc., before he is dead so that it can be transplanted in the body of another person? I have expressed my wish to donate my organs after my death. I was told that I should make a will in this regard and inform any heirs. Have I the right to do so? Apart from her husband, is it absolutely ḥarām for anyone, including the treating doctor, to look at the genitals of a woman? During the war, a person suffered an injury in his testicles, which resulted in their removal; this in turn had led to his becoming impotent. Is it permissible for such a person to use therapeutic hormones to keep him sexually active and preserve his virility? And should it be found necessary to restore his ability to have young, can he resort to transplantation of the testis? Is it permissible for someone to masturbate, upon a doctor’s advice, for carrying out a sperm test? Is it permissible for a woman doctor to touch and look at the private parts of another woman for the purpose of medical examination and diagnosis? Is it permissible for a military institution to examine the private parts of persons? Is it permissible for a male doctor to touch or look at the body of a woman during examination? Is it permissible to implant hair on the head of a person who suffered burns so much so that they are put under immense psychological pressure because of it? Since having a kidney transplant would improve the patient’s condition considerably, there has been an intention to set up a kidney bank. This is bound to encourage people to donate or sell their kidneys willingly. Is it permissible to donate or sell one’s body part by choice, whether it is a kidney or any other organ? And what is the ruling in emergency conditions? Is it permissible to dig the graves of Muslims or non-Muslims in order to exhume the bones for training purposes in the school of medicine? Is it permissible to carry out a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death in doubtful cases, e.g., we do not know whether it happened due to poison, suffocation, or something else? Research in heart and vascular diseases could require the physical examination of particular organs of dead people who suffered from such diseases. It is to be noted, though, that the extracted organs would be buried not later than one day or so after the examination has been carried out. Please let us know the ruling in the following matters. 1. Is it permissible if such research is carried out on the dead bodies of Muslims? 2. Is it permissible to bury the removed organs separately, i.e., not with the body they belong to? 3. Since it is rather problematic to bury the organs separately, is it permissible to bury them alongside any other dead body? 12