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OnlinePoker

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6. That only works if there are lungs available to transplant.

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 12:10 PM

Feb 2017

Last edited Mon Feb 20, 2017, 12:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Last year in B.C., for instance, there were a total of 40 lung transplants. So far this year there have been 4 with 36 people on the waiting list. Just under a quarter of the provincial population are registered organ donors.

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Assisted dying in Canada - One redditor's experience [View all] OnlinePoker Feb 2017 OP

Both beautiful and horrible. Daemonaquila Feb 2017 #1

A much saner alternative to what I'm told is offered in Switzerland shrike Feb 2017 #2

yup euthanasia is supposed to be a humane death. Give them a heroin overdose, that's fast. Sunlei Feb 2017 #3

Perhaps because "injecting something" would go beyond assisted suicide... Wounded Bear Feb 2017 #4

Shoot, even a Kevorkian-style machine would have been better than what was depicted on that video shrike Feb 2017 #7

Didn't watch... Wounded Bear Feb 2017 #11

How about a lung transplant for these not curable lung diseases? years & years of slow death costs Sunlei Feb 2017 #5

That only works if there are lungs available to transplant. OnlinePoker Feb 2017 #6

probably thousands of 'donated lungs' that go unused because there are only 36 on the list. Sunlei Feb 2017 #10

Another issue we need to keep fighting for Johnny2X2X Feb 2017 #8

Thanks for posting this! The doctors seemed very humane! Akamai Feb 2017 #9