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Scairp

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15. I don't begrudge him
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 12:00 AM
Jan 2012

I think anyone of us would, if we had the money, do whatever was necessary to save our own lives, extend our lives, if we were dying of something treatable. He had young children, and I'm quite sure they are happy they had their father around as long as they did, as is his wife and other family and close friends. And as long as no one was harmed or "bumped down" the list for a transplant because he had money and they didn't, then I don't see the problem. In this case, I just don't know. I do know that transplant recipients are screened for many things, including whether or not the organ is going to someone who will take good care of themselves and whether they have any underlying, untreatable conditions that make a transplanted organ unsuitable, that they won't survive any longer with a transplant because of that underlying condition than they would without a transplant.

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