Richard “Rick” Slayman: Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies, his death came just two weeks after his surgery. latest news on townflex
Isn’t it cheaper to harvest organs from cadavers instead of spending millions in figuring how to put pig parts into humans? Then you ask why US healthcare is so expensive.
It was two months post surgery.
Yeah, but he got a human heart in 2018 and was diabetic.
He wasn’t going to live long regardless, but what matters is what killed him and the source is pretty bad.
Two months isn’t great and it’s not terrible, so the details is what matters.
So season 3 of Dr. Death?
Suffering from end-stage kidney disease, Richard underwent the groundbreaking procedure in March, only to depart from this world merely two months post-surgery.
The news of his demise was confirmed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the medical facility behind the historic transplant, on Saturday.
Either an AI wrote this or somebody needs to take the author’s fucking thesaurus. He has ceased to be. He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible. He is an Ex-pig kidney transplant recipient.
He’s pining for the fjords
Richard passed beyond the veil Tuesday morning. His brain was made into mince-meat. He poofed into a cloud of smoke and was carried away by a wayward zephyr, destined for the clearing at the end of the path.
Homie got ded. He’s ghosted, slid out his flesh jacket, closed the shop, and joined the unseen squad. Homie’s no longer rockin’ that pig kidney.
Dude’s dead.
He dun died.
I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand that’s pretty interesting and like, hurray for saving lives. But on the other hand it seems kind of incredibly messed up to raise animals as sacrificial organ sacks.
You’re gonna be blown away when you learn how animals treat each other in the wild.
It’s easy to label others from a fictional high ground. If faced with death or dead pig im sure most people choose dead pig.
I don’t care how they treat each other, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. And I’m not labelling anyone here, I just said I had mixed feelings about it.
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It’s incredible that this was viable in the first place. Of course these type of experimental surgeries are done on extremely sick people at the end stage of normal care. So, actually two months is nothing to scoff at. It means a successful operation. I hope autopsy will give insight. What this man did is incredibly brave and important for mankind. Hero in my books.
