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...alternative in sacrificing just part of it. When Eisenhower was suffering repeated heart attacks, Blachly recalls, at least 20 people offered him their hearts; such offers frequently come from people who are looking for a way to die. But that death wish might be purged, he reasons, if the donor gives an organ that is not essential to his own life. People who donate a kidney, Blachly notes, often experience "a sustained feeling of satisfaction and of being noble," and their personal relationships frequently become more satisfying...
...common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery would give psychiatrists time to study the would-be donor's motives and his chances of benefiting from giving an organ. The result, Blachly says, might well be an enhanced "sense of dignity and self-determination" on the part...
When news of the arrest came to the encampment, VVAW immediately began a bail fund By late afternoon, more than 100 had donated pints of blood at the Red Cross to collect the $15 donor...
Indeed, some form of superagency may be the only solution to the formidable legal problems sure to arise. Already, laws relating to artificial insemination by a donor are in confusion; developments such as donor mothers and cloning will raise even more complicated questions. If a mother had herself cloned without her husband's permission, for only one example, would he be legally responsible for the child...
...number of sources have suggested- and one source has confirmed- that Land is the anonymous donor of $12.5 million for the new Science Center. This donation is the fourth largest in the University's history...