[UA] The Invisible Hand

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 01:10 AM 09/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Doug Stalker wrote:
>
>> * OK, with modern technology it's probably possable to survive
>> without a liver - but I doubt it's a very nice existance.
>
>I don't think so.  I've had TWO~! liver transplants (and they tell me that
>I'll probly need another one in 10-15 years), and according to all the
>medical propaganda I've come across, the liver is the only organ/tissue that
>does not have some technological replacement.  

If I recally correctly, a healthy liver can regenerate, right?  And also
(this is a little murky in my memory), the liver is divisible -- that is,
you can give someone HALF your liver and, if all goes well, eventually the
lost portion grows back.

>P.S. Ok, we don't have a 'brain replacement' either, but a body can be kept
>alive with a non-functioning brain (it's called brain death, but it's not
>recognised in all countries, which is why the Japanese have to go to
>Australia or US if they need a transplant).  

???  Huh?  You mean that if you go into a coma in Japan they just unplug you?

>I went through all of that, except the death
>part ;)

All I have to say is: Damn.

-G.
Sankyu

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