Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
It's easy to say that we don't need a meat organ to survive or to live.
But using a completely synthetic, bioengineered matrix such as the one transplanted in Lyles, he says, makes the transplant safer for the patient, potentially sparing him the complications that can arise if he can't accept the new organ.
These stem cells are largely interchangeable between patients and don't require matching, as organ transplants do.
Worse yet, they put meat on the grill that didn't belong there -- delicate organ meat on the one hand, then tough cuts I would only use for pot roast.
Their argument is that legislation won't improve your chances of having an organ donation and in fact, it could make things worse.
They certainly aren't coming from car accident victims who have signed organ donor cards.
The government is likely to see it as a very hot potato indeed, and the British Organ Donation Society thinks it doesn't take sufficient account of families' wishes.
One older woman called Rhodes' show, saying she had decided to cancel her organ donor card because she didn't want her organs "good or bad" to go to a Republican.
It wasn't supposed to be this way when Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, sponsored by then-Senator Al Gore.
This means the patient won't have to take powerful drugs to prevent her immune system from rejecting the organ.
These are the people who must scrutinise the government's proposed Organ Donation Bill and let's face it, they can't afford to make many mistakes on that one.
But because the review process involves research and public comment and because there's not enough organ donations for children, the nation's transplant system won't likely be able to save the life of Sarah Murnaghan, who could die within weeks without a transplant of lungs.
This morning's Health Committee (click on the link to watch in full) on the proposed opt-out Bill on organ transplantation was not far off a masterclass in scrutiny - and you don't hear that too often in the Assembly.
And he doesn't dwell on what the episode might mean to U.S. residents on the donor-organ waiting list or to foreigners applying for legal immigration who might have congestive heart failure and dream of treatment in America.
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