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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by andrepd on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:02AM (#33967746)
>And yet when I suggest we might try harder to help people keep their own organs more functional in that case, I'm generally given all kinds of flak

Brilliant! Why did nobody think of that /s

Major organ transplants are pretty much only performed on people for whom it is the last resort. In fact, there are not enough organs to do transplants on everybody who would need it, let alone waste on people who don't.

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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:06AM (#33967780)
I'm abundantly familiar with this. Seriously.

And, no, we don't try hard enough. There is lots of room for improvement.

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Re:Orphaned neurological implants by Pepe1vo on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:16AM (#33967864)
> There is lots of room for improvement. Like what?

I feel for the majority of transplant cases the answer is going to be along the lines of "you shouldn't have gotten (into an accident|leukemia)" which is technically true yet at the same time very unhelpful.

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