En novembre 1967, La Tour de Garde a déclaré qu’une personne qui accepte la greffe d’un organe humain est 'living off the flesh of another human' et que cela est 'cannibalistic', que cette chair soit 'chewed or in the form of whole organs or body parts'.

The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers (donating one's body for research / accepting transplanted organs)”

15 novembre 1967 · pp.702-704 · p. 702 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Those who submit to such operations are thus living off the flesh of another human. That is cannibalistic. However, in allowing man to eat animal flesh Jehovah God did not grant permission for humans to try to perpetuate their lives by cannibalistically taking into their bodies human flesh, whether chewed or in the form of whole organs or body parts taken from others.”

Reasoning from Genesis 9:3-4 that replacing a diseased organ with another human's organ is a 'shortcut' equivalent to eating human flesh.

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