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...allegedly stolen by Lee and Sword would have covered, with money to spare, the entire cost of a bone marrow transplant, according to a spokesperson at Dana-Farber...
Chester Szuber, a retired Christmas-tree-farm owner, had been tormented by heart disease for 20 years. He had endured three open-heart surgeries and two operations to clear his arteries. Four years ago, he was put on a waiting list for a transplant. But early in the morning of Aug. 18, he was bumped to the front of the line. His daughter Patti -- a nursing student who carried an organ-donor card, had communicated to her family her wish to be a donor and even drove a car with a bumper sticker promoting donations -- had been thrown from...
That is a judgment of supply and demand. Emotionally, the transplant touched more ambiguous chords. "My ethical meter says this is O.K. and should be done. My gut-feeling meter says, 'Wow, this is very troubling.' It's in the Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' category," says Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "The heart is the most symbolic of organs. Had they moved a lung or a pancreas, it just wouldn't have the same emotional impact." But a child's heart? Surely no parent could bear such a burden. Unless...
...four years, Chester Szuber, 58, of Berkley, Michigan, waited in a long line for someone to provide a heart for the transplant he desperately needed to survive. He finally won a new lease on life last week, but from a singularly tragic source. His daughter Patti, 22, was fatally injured in a car crash, long after signing an organ-donor card, thus allowing surgeons to put her compatible heart in her father's body...
...report released last week by the human-rights organization Asia Watch details the traffic in transplant organs taken from executed Chinese prisoners. Each year 2,000 to 3,000 organs are removed from inmates, and executions are often deliberately botched so that the condemned person remains alive while the organs are removed, according to the study. "That is vivisection," said an Asia Watch researcher. The report comes at a sensitive time -- just as U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown is preparing to escort a group of top U.S. ceos on a whirlwind tour of China. Hours before his arrival on Saturday...