Suharto suffers multiple organ failure Posted: 9 months ago by bevissimo
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The former Indonesian dictator Suharto suffered organ failure Friday and was placed on a ventilator, losing consciousness as his family rushed to his bedside, some praying and reciting verses from the Quran.
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Suharto's heath critical, doctors say Posted: 9 months ago by gratheo
Suharto, former 'President' of Indonesia, is infamous for governing Indonesia for 32 years until widespread riots and demonstrations forced him to resign.
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Indonesia’s ex-dictator Suharto dies Posted: 9 months ago by bevissimo
Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.
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The Gift of a Lifetime: Organ and Tissue Transplantation in America Posted: 2 years ago by robfouryqr
In this dramatic photo-documentary journey, experience the stories of patients whose hopes rise and fall with each passing day as they wait for organ transplants. Learn how families look beyond their grief in order to give life to others.
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China imposes stricter rules on organ transplants Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
Not that we were ever selling them in the first place.
Earlier Story .
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Presumed Consent For Organ Donation Coming Posted: 9 months ago by Pocksucket
Possibly inspired* by Punthe's forum thread of two days ago, Gordon Brown today announced plans to reform the organ donation process including adopting the presumption that all organs can be harvested unless expressly stated.
*You never know who reads Plime...
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Organ Donation Show Hoax Posted: 1 year ago by Caremel
Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.
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Sea Organ - musical instrument played by the sea Posted: 10 months ago by misswinkle
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea.
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Organ donor? Save money on your funeral Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Funeral company in the Netherlands offer discounts on funeral costs if the deceased is a registered organ donor.
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Indonesia to block Youtube over [i]Fitna[/i] Posted: 6 months ago by gratheo
Indonesia has banned broadcasts of the film by Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Freedom Party, and radical Muslims called for the lawmaker’s death during protests outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta this week.
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Report Claims 16.4% Of All Xbox 360 Consoles Will Fail Posted: 8 months ago by punthe
A new report from independent warranty provider SquareTrade has found that the failure rate of an Xbox 360 is not as high as critics would have you believe, but it is still much higher than the official number from Microsoft.
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PlayStation 3 Failure Rates at 0.2% Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
The news is particularly of note in the context of Microsoft’s recent troubles with faulty, overheating ‘red ring of death’ Xbox 360s, with the default rates of initial batches of 360s clearly way over that industry standard.
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David Blaine Looks Towards World's Easiest Scapegoat for His Failure To Perform Magic Posted: 2 weeks ago by ImNotBlue
His latest "stunt" fails... so who does he blame? Why none other than George W. Bush, of course!
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Woman Dies In Iron Lung After Power Failure Posted: 4 months ago by cb__
Polio victim spent nearly 60 years in the 750-pound machine.
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Are You In Need Of An Organ Transplant? Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Finding high-quality organs in a timely fashion can often be a problem.
We are a domestic and international adoption agency where parents are free to adopt a child who is a perfect match for the transplant of one or more “non-essential” organs to be donated to one of the adopting parents or your own children.
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The Real Rudy? Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
On the eve of the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, people ask "What was Rudy's biggest failure on 9/11?"
What do you think?
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The Fail Blog Posted: 8 months ago by Bornbad
Fail, failure, you fail. Welcome to the Fail blog.
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When Is a Person Dead Enough? Posted: 6 months ago by doggylives
According to some ethicists, The current medical definition of death is wrong … and this mistake is costing lives. The controversy centres around organ donation, in which doctors remove organs from brain dead patients:
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WaMu was the next to fall. Posted: 2 weeks ago by IcePigs
In the biggest bank failure in history, JPMorgan Chase will acquire massive branch network and troubled assets from Washington Mutual for $1.9 billion.
On a personal note, WaMu holds (held?) my mortgage. Does this mean I don't need to make any more payments??
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How the Oscars impeded organ transplants Posted: 7 months ago by srsmits
So, just as it had done 23 times last year alone, B.C. Transplant went down its list of 11 jets-for-hire companies across the country and in the United States to charter a $15,000 flight to shuttle its organ-recovery surgeons to the remote locale and back.
Only this time, it wasn't going to be so simple.
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Organ transplants in China ...Crimes against humanity? Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
One Chinese doctor tells a particularly shocking case where kidneys were removed from a prisoner, while he was still alive!
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