How does a 71 year old guy who was/is a heroin addict - alcoholic get a liver transplant? Here he is dead a few months after getting one, meanwhile I don’t even have to guess some kid has died because they couldn’t get one. Reminds me of when John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas got a liver transplant after being a coke and heroin addict for years, then after he gets the transplant they caught him in a bar “breaking the new liver in” in HIS words! Same with Mickey Mantle, another boozer gets a transplant then dies. WTF?
How does a 71 year old guy who was/is a heroin addict - alcoholic get a liver transplant? Here he is dead a few months after getting one, meanwhile I don’t even have to guess some kid has died because they couldn’t get one. Reminds me of when John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas got a liver transplant after being a coke and heroin addict for years, then after he gets the transplant they caught him in a bar “breaking the new liver in” in HIS words! Same with Mickey Mantle, another boozer gets a transplant then dies. WTF?
I think he was someone the elites thought was cool. That's pretty much it.
I never "got" Lou Reed. He was in the Andy Warhol "Factory" scene back in the '60's. They were all about burning themselves out on smack and sex and pills. Some died soon, some died later. They all thought they were really cool, and they put on a good show for the media and publishing types who dropped in on them to take in the smell, which they then packaged and sold to the baby boomers after cleaning it up a bit.
Mr. Reed didn't seem to have much to say in recent years.
He loved cigars, too. I once delivered a box of them outside his apartment door on West 13th St. in Greenwich Village. That couldn’t have helped.
I was wondering the same thing, just for his age, let alone a “rock ‘n roll” “lifestyle”. From the wiki link in an above post, he was bisexual, and I bet that “lifestyle” didn’t have a positive effect on his health, particularly his liver.
read that some parent just sold their daughter knowing it was to harvest her organs.
in some places human life is cheep
>>How does a 71 year old guy who was/is a heroin addict - alcoholic get a liver transplant?<<
He paid cash?