re: Device Keeps Organs Alive for 24 Hours to Save More Lives

mar6915 — 2/16/2020 12:53:43 AM

Who knows. Maybe some day ULiSSES will help put my heart in someone else.

re: Device Keeps Organs Alive for 24 Hours to Save More Lives

Almond — 2/15/2020 2:04:40 AM

There are so many philosophical questions about organ transplants. For the time being, I put organ and tissue transplants in the same category as blood transfusions. In the case of a person being deceased, I think of it this way. They have no further need of their organs where they are, but many people still on this earth have need of them, so it is just good stewardship. I do not believe in coercion to force a person to give up organs, only what is given freely. And I respect religious beliefs of those who have another way of thinking and believing. The execution of prisoners in China, for their organs is beyond evil.

Well, fish go on life support, too. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen. One year, my husband caught a beauty of a wild fish. We put it in huge cooler with river water and called it in. We did not get to keep and eat that one. Almost instantly, a Fish & Game boat came alongside and put it into another cooler. They had tubes pumping oxygen into the water to keep it alive. All sorts of stuff. They wanted the fish eggs for spawn to raise more fish. This took an hour or more out of the best part of our fishing day. At least F&G left us with a small cooler of more bait to make up for it.