Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next crew departing for the "Level Above Human," I suggest that before leaving their "containers" or bodies behind, they fill out some organ-donor cards. STEFAN VLADESCU New York City...
There's a lot to overcome in deciding to donate your organs: the specter of death for one thing, signing documents for another. This week three members of Congress who cover all the organ-donation bases--Senator Mike DeWine, who made the issue his top priority after having to make a split-second decision to donate the organs of his 22-year-old daughter killed in a car accident in 1993; Senator Bill Frist, a surgeon who actually did transplants; and Representative Joe Moakley, who walks the halls of Congress thanks to a donated liver--will launch National Organ...
...Minutes piece featured an attorney pushing a novel murder defense: that the victim was killed not by his client but by the harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...
...though never implemented by the Cleveland Clinic, are used elsewhere and are supported by Dr. Hans Sollinger, president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. A 1996 study of 500 hospitals found that about a third of the institutions that responded used cardiac-dead donors, some presumably injected with organ-preserving drugs. Cardiac dead used to be the most dead you could be. It wasn't until the late 1960s that new laws added the standard of brain dead. Hospitals make sure that the physician who officially declares death and the transplant team are separate, and that the family alone...
...example was the Hayrenik, "the organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Foundation, a nationalist political party with a socialist program," Russell says...