Category Archives: Personhood

A place to talk about what a person is.

Personhood – The Most Important Question Today

Why write on personhood?  When thinking on personhood, I am considering what it is to be a person.  How do we defined a person?

Is a person an integrated body-soul or is a person, in some way, separate from the body they inhabit?  This, I believe, is a very important question when considering considering issues like, organ donation, In Vitro Fertilization, abortion and euthanasia.

For vital organs to be harvested for donation, they must be alive.  Living organs are only found in living bodies. … Read the rest