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Urgent medical question about organ donation…

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I’m very curious… of course this is a hypothetical question…

If someone were to drive to a hospital – a good one that is familiar with organ donating (unless they all are??) – and “accidentally” shoot themselves in the ER parking lot, bullet to the brain via the throat (??), and was WAY beyond possible resuscitation (brains blown out – hopefully nothing left) – and if that person had a note saying it was ok to donate body organs to those in need – would it be medically possible to save those organs and transplant successfully – in those 5 minutes or so it would […]

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FYI – Article: Lawrence Egbert: The new Dr. Death

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Lawrence Egbert: The new Dr. Death

"Dr Death"

With Jack Kevorkian gone, says Manuel Roig-Franzia, this 84-year-old doctor is the new face of assisted suicide

LAWRENCE EGBERT COMES to his cramped third-story office almost every weekday, taking calls on an old white push-button phone with a handset darkened by years of smudged newsprint and perspiration. Egbert, a slightly built, genial, and energetic retired anesthesiologist, turns to his computer, content to answer an email while I sort through a pile of plastic tubing in a lumpy white garbage bag. Once I finish untangling the tubes, I hold in my hands a […]

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FYI: Atlanta – Suicide law struck down

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GA assisted-suicide law struck down

ATLANTA, Feb. 6 (UPI) — The Georgia Supreme Court struck down the state’s assisted-suicide law, saying it violated free-speech clauses in the state and U.S. constitutions.

“As a general matter … government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content,” said the unanimous decision issued Monday in favor of four members the Final Exit Network. ”

The four were charged for assisting in a 2008 suicide, The Atlanta Journal Constitution said. A 1994 Georgia law made it a felony for anyone “who publicly advertises, offers or holds himself or herself out as offering […]

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