In order to understand the reactions to medical procedures after death, it is necessary to reach a deeper understanding of the factors that influence the attitudes toward organ donations and other procedures with the decreased body.
In 1994, a survey was taken from 400 inhabitants of a city in the middle of Sweden. The survey was concerned with attitudes toward transplantation issues. From the interviews, motive complexes were analyzed and interpreted.
The motives were divided into these complexes:
(1) Illusion of lingering life. (2) Protections of the value of the individual;
(3) Distrust, anxiety and alienations; (4) Respecting the limits set by Nature
or God ; (5) Altruism; and (6) Rationality.