Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
I suppose there are all types of alcoholics. I think it is possible to be classed an alcoholic when that person isn't really aware they have a drink problem at all. Of course, at the other end of the scale, you have hopeless drunks, who are a complete waste of time, too far gone and are a liability to themselves and all around them. Obviously the greater the odds that person will change their ways the more likelihood they should get a transplant. One sort wants to live and the other has probably given up on that a long time ago - harbouring a death wish .Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
A close relative of mine is a hardened alcoholic - twice been in intensive care and still hasn't learned his lesson. He will never work again and doesn't want to. I think a liver transplant on him would be a complete waste of a liver that could be best used on somebody more deserving.Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
The new scheme will consider people with severe alcohol associated hepatitis and will begin with a pilot scheme of around 20 people aged between 18 and 40.Re: Alcoholics to get liver transplants!
Makes me think of old age in general - or 'death' in fact. Imagine a time when it would be possible to abuse your body any which way you want, suffer from whatever even but without too much concern - why? Well, there will come a time when docs will be able to keep you alive indefinitely. Why then do people reach a certain age now and want to depart from this world? Are they bored? Lonely? If you took away the loneliness' then would people want to live forever? Can't see it myself as there comes a time when people have had enough where nothing is new or stimulating. Whatever is out there after death might be preferable to a living death - if you see what I mean.
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