Perhaps I'm nitpicking, but what Cheney got was an implant, not a transplant

[man4allcats]

11. I do realize standards change. My brother died in 1995,

but I am surprised to learn that even now people in their late 60s (or in Cheney's case early 70s), some with multiple organ failure as in the case you mention, are today being considered eligible. Further, when my brother was sick, there was considerable attention paid to the patient's lifestyle in determining eligibility. Drug and alcohol abusers generally did not qualify. I can't imagine that a rich, evil old s.o.b. like Cheney who undoubtedly never made any effort to control the appetites that most certainly contributed to his condition will make any attempt now to change his self-destructive ways. They should have let the old fucker die. Someone else could have used the heart, and the rest of us would have all been better off.