[UA] The Invisible Hand

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 03:00 PM 09/19/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>I think he was talking about organ donation. Basically most of the countries
>allow organ donation only if the donor is in a state of "brain death". If
>Japan doesn't recognize this, then I assume it's not possible for a Japanese
>person to donate an organ, and therefore for a Japanese person to receive
>an organ in Japan. Hence they have to go abroad?
>
>I hope I got everything right here, not completely sure about that :)

I know people don't have to be brain dead to donate.  However, since organs
start to decay fast -- like, in less than an hour in some cases -- a brain
dead donor is much better than an all-the-way dead one.

-G.
Sankyu

http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html


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