How to Build an Artificial Heart

Re:How to Build an Artificial Heart by fellowniusmonk on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:34PM (#26349442)

As someone with a faulty valve and other sundry heart defects, I don't see how you can read this article and not fault the FDA.

I've gone through two periods of extreme shortness of breath, it's not a good way to live, it's not a good way to die.

Especially if you can't even volunteer to move research forward.

I'm a big fan of countries who have made organ donation opt-in as the default.

Is 660k deaths per year due to heart failure insufficient to let people volunteer? Am I missing something here?

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Re:How to Build an Artificial Heart by VierScar on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:25AM (#26353499)

Did you mean to say you're a big fan of countries where opt-out is the default for organ donation? So by default, you will donate your organs

Not sure why anyone would want opt-out to be the default?

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Re:How to Build an Artificial Heart by wrinkl3 on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:34AM (#26355677)

I love how you were correcting him and then made the exact same mistake.

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Re:How to Build an Artificial Heart by fakedang on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:57AM (#26355845)

Opt-out means you opt-out of default organ donation.

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