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Lately there have been organ transplant stories in the news. In one case, it seems a man committed suicide, and his organs were donated. The man receiving the heart married the widow. A few years later, the man who received the donated heart also committed suicide. In another case, there were the people who received implants from a man who had an undiagnosed disease--and all the recipients quickly died.
When you think about it, cutting body parts out of a corpse and sticking them into living people is ghoulish and Frankenstein-ish. One day in the future stem cell researchers will find out how to take cells from your own body and have these cells grow into the organ you need--say a liver or a heart--then you will receive your own cloned organ. That will be a wonderful day.
People of the future will look back on the current practice of taking body parts from a cadaver as ghastly and barbaric--like what we feel today about bleeding and purging and lobotomies and other arcane medical practices.
Susil
Yes, let's get the ball rolling on stem cell research! 
