In spite of all our differences, the one thing that binds all living creatures is that we each have an expiration date. This finality to our existence is what makes life special, something to be cherished and protected. But occasionally things can go terribly wrong…
Apr
7th
Author: Taz |
Files under Casualties: Low, Medical
In the 1991 movie Body Parts, when a man loses his arm in a car accident, surgeons transplant the arm of an executed death row inmate onto the injured man. Unfortunately, an evil force possesses the new arm, and murder ensues. Now fiction may have become reality as a transplanted heart recipient follows in the dark footsteps of his donor.
In South Carolina, a man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago later married the donor’s widow! Then on Tuesday, the man died the same way his heart donor did: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (cue eerie music)
