Blow Up Your Liver By Drinking? Here, Have Another
While your friendly host certainly does not wish harm to anyone who is ill, I also can't help but think that it's grossly unfair for a guy who blew up his liver through his alcoholism to shoot to the front of the line for a liver transplant.
I'm not quite sure how the system works, but shouldn't it somehow take into account the extent to which personal behavior has contributed to one's illness?
It would in a personal-responsibility society.
Good for Pat Summerall for (allegedly) overcoming his alcoholism. But that IS what blew up his liver. He should be at the back of the line for a second chance.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/02/04 21:27 | Other | Technorati
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I remember the same thing with Mickey Mantle. He got a new liver to make up for his smoking and then got lung cancer because of his smoking, or something like that. I recall thinking at the time that perhaps someone else might have been more worthy of the liver... and I was about ten!
Posted by R. Alex @ 23:21 on 04/02/04
Hmmm, well having done a little research (outrageous for a blogger, no?), Mantle ultimately died of liver failure after all. Maybe it was a good thing that liver didn't go in to someone else?
He apparently died on my seventeenth birthday. I guess my memory is deteriorating with age...
Posted by R. Alex @ 23:27 on 04/02/04
I did not think Mantle ever smoked!! His dad smoked and he thought it was foolish. Evidently he did not think drinking was foolish!
Posted by Lou @ 00:02 on 04/03/04
Mickey Mantle was the worst case.
I went to CSNY concert AFTER David Crosby got his rush-job liver and it was excellent, so I guess I'm a hypocrite.
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 02:20 on 04/03/04
I imagine a lot of people watched Larry Hagman after he got his rush job too..
This is the American way, you are rushed to the head of the line if you are a celebrity or do we just not hear about the lesser know folks?
Posted by OkieLou @ 10:22 on 04/03/04
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