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Six Months Old, Eight New Organs
AEton writes "According to the BBC, Dr. Andreas Tzakis has just successfully replaced six-month-old Alessia Di Matteo's liver, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, spleen, left kidney, and right kidney in a record-setting operation. The child is so far doing fine with a one-year-old baby's organs. Tzakis is no stranger to multiple-organ transplants; in 1997 he set the previous record of seven organs by replacing seven of a two-and-a-half-year-old's organs. It must be a little odd to know that a growing plurality of your tissue used to be someone else's."
Must ... have ... BRAINS!
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Where do you think they GOT that baby? Babies don't just pop out of nowhere... I'd hate to be the mother to wake up in a cold ice bath of my own blood.
The one-year-old baby is not doing so well.
Also if new parts were brought in, old parts must have been removed. What happened to them? America needs to stay competitive in this free market world, and there is a huge cannibalism market opening up in Germany.
Doctor: I'm sorry to say, but your baby was born with no arms...
Mother: Oh, doctor, I don't care, I'll still love him...
D: I'm afraid he doesn't have any legs either...
M: Never mind, he's still my son...
D: He doesn't have a trunk...
M: Ah...
D: And no head, either...
M: But, what does he has...
D: An ear...
(doctor brings the ear)
M: OH MY SON, MY BEAUTIFUL SON...
D: It's no use screaming, cause he's deaf...
how long until
No doubt my feelings on this would be much stronger if it was my own child in question, but it would seem we as a species very often let our emotions get in the way of rational thought, and I'm just not sure these parents made the right decision for their child.
Alright, Data.
how deep in the thread do I have to go so that I wouldn't be "offtopic" anymore?
Dib: You'll never... get away with this...
ZIM: You speak craziness, Earth boy. More organs means more human. It WILL work.
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Why didn't they just make a new baby? It's fun, and cheao.
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More research and funding should be put towards developing more artificial organs. The thought of extracting eight organs from a recently dead [but goulishly kept living] infant is disgusting and barbaric. Not to mention the poor quality of this potato baby's extremely short expected life. (Anti-rejection drugs, etc.)
The sappy article does nothing but manipulatively stir emotion. It is mindless drivel for the mongoloid masses. It is completely devoid of any mention of the technology behind this process.
While the technology is there for artificial organs, a lot of the research and engineering has not caught up. (Thanks to the fact that people would rather ban medical research, and instead fund sports programs.) Besides, a new baby could be made for a lot less effort and cost. A six-month-old is ultimately replaceable, and it not much more tragic than the loss of a family pet. Yes, it's tragic, but people, get on with your meaningless lives!
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Someone obviously lost their child, which is a horrible thing to have happen.
Careless, too.
Must... have... GRAINS!