My Question of the Day for 02 October 2009
My Question of the Day: You have a relative who has the inside track on who is up next for a heart transplant. S/he tells you they just got a heart that matches your blood type and the blood type of
your enemy. You are single with no children. Your enemy is a parent of five and your relative says that s/he may have a better chance of not rejecting the organ, but it will definitely go to you if you
want it. What do you do?
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I would take the heart transplant.
For starters, a ‘better’ candidate isn’t a quarantine that the transplant will have better success. There would probable be ‘better’ candidates than my enemy as well.
What would make the difference is what I would do with the second chance I would be given. Knowing a few heart transplant patients personally, I learned that the randomness of them getting a second chance they few of them would say they even deserved made a difference, and the responsibility of keeping their heart healthy led to greater things they went on to accomplish.
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