I recently came across this article about a woman in Philadelphia whose son’s body was not properly returned to her. Mary Anderson’s son died of complications from a lung infection, so she authorized an autopsy to determine exactly what he died of. When his body was...
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Death and organ donation
At what point do you die? Is it when your heart stops beating? When your brain stops functioning? Some other point? In Canada, there is no consensus on that, and this is starting to affect organ donor levels. If you die in one end of the country, you might be declared...
Donate your organs via Facebook
With all the hubbub about Facebook's IPO last week, I thought I would write about something Facebook-related, namely donating your organs. Seriously. Facebook users in the US and UK can now use a new feature to sign up, via Facebook, with their local organ-donor...