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Yeah especially because of chimeric DNA. There's a gene in dogs, for instance, that works great for them, makes them man's best friend, but when a man ends up with that same gene, it makes him follow people with authority and be super submissive.

Second of all, I believe everyone should commit to every organ in their body for the whole ride of life. No organ left behind, the soul isn't just the heart or brain, it's every organ. And if you have to lose an organ, live with it, that's part of why so many organs come in pairs.

Sure doctors tell you how cool they were when they transplanted a heart for the first time, but what are the outcomes like for the patient, like really? Warfarin? Immune suppression and therefore all kinds of warts and other parasites? Doctors make it sound like you "need" a new organ, but really it's the surgeon who needs to perform a surgery to keep being a surgeon. It absolutely is not like swapping in a brand new power supply for your computer.

> Yeah especially because of chimeric DNA

> the soul isn't just the heart or brain, it's every organ.

I'm sorry but this isn't some Facebook group, so, [citation very much needed]. No one is saying this procedure is without disadvantages, but for most people it outweighs ending their lives prematurely. Also it's very rare that people with only 1 faulty kidney get a transplant. Usually they get it because both kidneys are failing.

I’d rather have the chance to live with a transplanted organ than just die.

My aunt needed a new liver. Her liver failed, so she died.

Had a liver-transplant been available (she was on the list), she might still be alive.

There is a very good chance that the surgeon who would have performed the transplant is still a surgeon, despite the fact that said transplant never happened. My aunt, on the other hand, needed that liver.

That's fair. You might still enjoy some time with her if she were still around.

I won't pry. But the two questions I have for you to answer for yourself, not on this forum, but for yourself, are, first, how long did she manage to live? Did she reach a ripe old age? Death comes for us all. You can't expect it to never come about. Maybe getting a liver transplant doesn't count as cheating death. I highly doubt most people in most settings could count on this procedure as a natural and wholesome way to extend their life. Liver transplants aren't exactly chamomile infusions. I also imagine if you're telling the world about it that she was on the list it was not because she was irresponsible with herself. Tons of people are responsible with themselves. It's just not all people. Some people treat every part of their body that isn't the pleasure center in their brain like it's the slave of that pleasure center in their brain.

And you claim she might still be alive, meaning she might not have died of anything else yet. Again, death is inevitable. I will die. You will die. She died already, but if she hadn't, she would eventually die all the same. Doctors want to sell you the "save your life" angle, but in the literal sense of the phrase "save your life" nothing in medicine can do anything like that.

> Did she reach a ripe old age? Death comes for us all.

please don't write anything if you have nothing constructive to say. your closed-ended questions are judgments disguised as 'questions' that are only meant to shame OP and dismiss their loss.

>when a man ends up with that same gene, it makes him follow people with authority and be super submissive

Do you mean Williams syndrome? If so then that is a disgusting characterisation.

If the post is referring to WS then the characterization is actually wrong. Both dogs and healthy humans have said gene in the genome, but hypersociality in dogs and WS-affected individuals are caused by different mutations in it (structural variants and a full deletion respectively).

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