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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by trhway on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:46PM (#43247766)
>turning them into blood factories after cerebral death

we already turn people into transplant organs source, so i don't see much difference between harvesting a kidney, heart or blood

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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by belval on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:31PM (#43259537)
I think the duration makes it different, the ECMO (blood + oxygen being pumped out of the body) record according to Google is something like 554 days. That's much much longer than the typical transplant.
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