Right - thanks V.
I have been pondering this in my bath tonight - what would I do in this situation?
We have a friend who is dying of a brain tumour. It is one of those nasty tumours - no survival chance outside of a miracle.
But he is doing all the medical stuff - chemo, radiation and now some extremely expensive drug which is helping. But this is all to give him a few more months life - not to cure it.
Personally I wouldn't, but that's partly because I am keen to experience the death passage. I would do everything possible up until a point, and then I would surrender to the experience, not cling on.
But that's different to a heart transplant. That means years and years of life, not a few months. Yet it does seem a bit odd - living with another person's heart. I really can't say what I would do, if I had the money, which I don't.
I certainly would take a kidney transplant, or a liver, so I suppose a heart isn't that different. I know the old shamans wouldn't touch this stuff with a barge pole, but they were in a different paradigm ... perhaps.
