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Katie's New Face
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#12> Much of Katie’s care is being paid for by the Department of Defense, because her youth and ballistic trauma make her a stand-in for wounded warriors. For the rest of her life, she’ll take powerful antirejection drugs with risks of their own, becoming a lifelong subject in the study of this still experimental surgery. Kudos to the DoD for doing this. The military historically has been the driver for advances in surg…
Or, you know, we could just stop sending our young people out to get blown up... Kudos to the DoD for funding these experiments but they're solving a problem of their own creation...
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#13This is an amazing story. I wonder how many years it will take until we can fully reconstruct a face kind of like Elysium (movie) style.
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#14It's wrong that assisted suicide is illegal. The only humane thing to do here is let her pass in peace.
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#15They didn't mention in which state was the donor before her grandmother agreed to donate her face. Was she already dead from the overdose? Did they just take the full skull to the hospital?
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#16> Much of Katie’s care is being paid for by the Department of Defense, because her youth and ballistic trauma make her a stand-in for wounded warriors. For the rest of her life, she’ll take powerful antirejection drugs with risks of their own, becoming a lifelong subject in the study of this still experimental surgery. Kudos to the DoD for doing this. The military historically has been the driver for advances in surg…
Or, you know, we could just stop sending our young people out to get blown up... Kudos to the DoD for funding these experiments but they're solving a problem of their own creation...
> a problem of their own creation...
The DoD didn't invent war. It doesn't declare war. It just fights wars.
Who sends our young people to be blown up? Our elected leadership.
So we all made this problem.
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#17Non-interactive version of the article can be found here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-tra...
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#18Does anyone know why most (if not all) face transplant have such wide jaw line ?
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#19It's wrong that assisted suicide is illegal. The only humane thing to do here is let her pass in peace.
Seems to me she wants to live. I am not sure anyone would go through with that surgery if they did not want to live.
Edit: Reading more about the story. Her suicide attempt was entirely impulsive and not premeditated at all.
> "I never thought of doing that ever before, and so on hearing about it, I just didn't know how to handle it," she told National Geographic. "I felt so guilty that I had put my family through such pain. I felt horrible."
This is not an appropriate story to be talking about assisted suicide as it does not apply what-so-ever. This is more of a teenage depression / gun control discussion if there is to be any relevant meta-discussion at all.
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#20It's wrong that assisted suicide is illegal. The only humane thing to do here is let her pass in peace.
The humane thing is to let her choose what to do. But I agree that assisted suicide should be an option, under the supervision of trained psychiatrists and science-based protocols.