Posted on 01/22/2022 3:33:10 AM PST by ransomnote
“in a brain-dead patient”
Every time I read those words “brain dead” I immediately think of Biden. I wonder why.
When did Joe Biden’s Kidneys fail? /S
My mom donated her body to the local university to be used by the medical students. After she was dead of course!
I’m glad this man was also to help with medical research. I can’t imagine being his family and making the decision to admit that there is no hope in his survival.
But I guess they can be comforted that from this research many others may survive.
Seems he was more of a recipient than donor. Question is, how long before people start being made brain dead because the living cadavers are worth a lot of money?
Sadly, I think that ship has sailed. The minorities in China are subject to live (unsedated) organ harvesting - there’s no humanity left in such circumstances.
I just hope the man was really brain dead.
A few years ago I contacted the organization that runs the donation process to find out who the recipient was and how he is doing today but they couldn't provide me with that information since it was confidential.
Too late...been dead so long it’s in an advanced state of decay.
Just seems wrong doesn’t it?
When I hear that phrase, I think of those who have been called “brain dead” who came back from the condition.
No worries, both the pig and the patient can now vote Dem.
Is that the guy who got the kidneys?🤗
So did my cousin, who passed away this summer. When her daughter called the university to come pick up the body, she was told that they weren't accepting bodies for the duration of the Covid epidemic. As a result, she had to scramble to find a mortuary who would collect the body and arrange for cremation. In the meantime, my cousin's body sat all day in the chair where she had died.
I remember in college a course in Anatomy & Physiology, eheheh in the lab portion we dissected fetal pigs. Their internal configuration is very similar to humans. In cardiology there’s something called porcine heart valve replacement which are from pigs. As for pig kidney transplants to humans I’ll have to read up how they can be genetically altered as to not be rejected. Helping severely ill patients are one thing but carrying such technology over into the realm of Frankenstein like possibilities are quite another twisted taboo ridden ventures.
That’s been a question and a concern in the organ transplant community for decades.
This is one of the reasons I’m grateful I received my transplanted kidney from a living donor.
Would this technique be acceptable to Jewish or Muslim patients?
I don’t know why, but the biden reminds me of max headroom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtWvrAhC1M
they should have attempted to transplant a pig brain as well as a kidney.
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