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4. I wonder what "successful" means in this situation, as both the donor and recipient were dead.

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 10:44 PM

Nov 2017

How could they know if it actually worked or not? How do the know that the recipient won't immediately die, or wish that they were dead?

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