[Conscience of a Conservative]

This is a decision that should be made by the parents (or patient if they are of sound mind or age) and their doctors only and if there is a chance to save her life, it should be tried if possible.

Transplanted organs are a (very) scarce resource, which makes the decision a lot more complicated than "let the patient/family/doctors decide."

[Nowhere Man]

Transplanted organs are a (very) scarce resource, which makes the decision a lot more complicated than "let the patient/family/doctors decide."

I can't deny that, really. It is a lot like taking a Dodge engine and putting it in a Ford but the complications are many times that. I think organ transplanting is mroe or less a dead end street, somehow, somewhere, we need to find some ways to grow non-defective replacement organs by the use of adult stem cells.