Should anyone ask me anything further on this issue, I will follow in the footsteps of the aforementioned Talmudic Sage and change the subject. In a recent discussion with my father we disagreed on whether Halachah allows for organ transplantation. My father took the position that a body is to be buried whole. When I studied bio-medical ethics I recall an article arguing the following. Modern medicine requires new law because it has changed what we can do for the ill.
Organ transplants are a very new procedure.
Because this procedure is so new, older law is inappropriate because it could not imagine or consider this possibility. Given that this is the case, then the question is whether not donating organs can be justified. There are few situation in which a Jew can avoid not attempting to save a life. So the question is whether donating an organ for use after one's own death one of these situations that would prevent attempting to save a life. I can not find my source for this.