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If it works, why die? You have a chance.
Why would I care at that point? I'm not living with a pig's heart. That's disgusting. Imagine someone being so afraid of dying they were willing to have a pig's heart transplanted. There's nothing someone like that wouldn't do.
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I don’t feel like that’s the most important thing. If we can farm kidneys for folks with kidney failure, rather than rely on a combination of the kindness of live donors and harvesting organs from corpses, it will be a huge step forward, even if recipients still need immunosuppressants (as they do with human organs). I do wonder if the immunosuppressants for cross-species organs have to be stronger/nastier than for i…
I didn’t realize you had to take lifelong immunosuppressants with human organs as well. That makes this indistinguishable, provided it keeps working.
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If it works, why die? You have a chance.
Why would I care at that point? I'm not living with a pig's heart. That's disgusting. Imagine someone being so afraid of dying they were willing to have a pig's heart transplanted. There's nothing someone like that wouldn't do.
You're making an unneeded distinction. If YOU would like to die, so be it.
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If it works, why die? You have a chance.
Why would I care at that point? I'm not living with a pig's heart. That's disgusting. Imagine someone being so afraid of dying they were willing to have a pig's heart transplanted. There's nothing someone like that wouldn't do.
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If successful, this is great. However, I would like to see how long this lasts. I can recall seeing similar stories with either a rejection at the end, or some negative outcome for the patient.
Good luck to the guy though!
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