Originally Posted by glo

Today I gave blood - and it got me to wonder whether giving blood was Islamically permitted/encouraged?

Foe anybody in the UK, who is interested, here is the official website: http://www.blood.co.uk/

(Foolishly I had not eaten or drunk for several hous before (silly thing to do!), which resulted in me passing out when I sat up after the domantion. One moment I was sitting there, applying pressure to the inside of my elbow ... thinking 'ooh oh, I am feeling a little lightheaded' ... the next moment I am lying back on the stretcher, with three female attendance fluttering around me, patting my cheek, asking my name, wiping up blood. How embarrassing! That's never happened to me before)