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TheBicyclingGuitarist
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22 Jul 2013, 10:38 pm

I saw the following story on MSNBC news web page : Live liver donors

Apparently part of a liver can be taken from someone and put into someone else who needs a liver, and it works or at least helps. Does this news story remind anyone else of this from the Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclS1pGHp8o[/youtube]


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22 Jul 2013, 11:50 pm

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. . . “People who are healthy and willing should consider being tested to be living donors for a loved one or even a stranger,” said Aisha Michel, spokeswoman for Donate Life America, an advocacy agency. “Today, living donors can donate kidneys, livers, lungs and intestines.” . . .

Interesting!



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23 Jul 2013, 12:43 am

TheBicyclingGuitarist wrote:
I saw the following story on MSNBC news web page : Live liver donors

Apparently part of a liver can be taken from someone and put into someone else who needs a liver, and it works or at least helps. Does this news story remind anyone else of this from the Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aclS1pGHp8o[/youtube]


How I wish that were available when my Dad died in 1986 from liver cancer.