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A 22-year-old alcoholic has died after being refused a life-saving liver transplant because he was too ill to leave hospital and prove he could stay sober.
Gary Reinbach, who died in hospital on Monday from a severe case of liver cirrhosis, did not qualify for a donor liver under strict NHS rules.
The alcoholic, from Dagenham, Essex, had admitted binge drinking since he was 13 but was only taken to hospital for the first time with liver problems 10 weeks ago.
He was never discharged.
Originally posted by Wyn Hawks
...thats a misleading thread title... the young man wasnt sentenced to death by a governmental authority... its standard procedure not to waste a liver on someone who is incapable of staying sober or is too ill otherwise to survive the transplant operation... bottom line is - that young man committed suicide, albeit a slow one but it got the job done...
Originally posted by Wyn Hawks
...thats a misleading thread title... the young man wasnt sentenced to death by a governmental authority... its standard procedure not to waste a liver on someone who is incapable of staying sober or is too ill otherwise to survive the transplant operation... bottom line is - that young man committed suicide, albeit a slow one but it got the job done...
He had recently tried to give up and had signed up for support group Alcoholics Anonymous just weeks before he was taken into hospital, they said.
His brother Luke, 18, told the Evening Standard: "They never gave him the chance to show he could change."
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
Originally posted by Wyn Hawks
...thats a misleading thread title... the young man wasnt sentenced to death by a governmental authority... its standard procedure not to waste a liver on someone who is incapable of staying sober or is too ill otherwise to survive the transplant operation... bottom line is - that young man committed suicide, albeit a slow one but it got the job done...
He had recently tried to give up and had signed up for support group Alcoholics Anonymous just weeks before he was taken into hospital, they said.
His brother Luke, 18, told the Evening Standard: "They never gave him the chance to show he could change."
And no mention of him being 'too ill otherwise to survive the transplant operation'.
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
reply to post by king9072
No king, I won't get a grip. Not giving this young man a chance to live is wrong. The injustice in this is phenomenal. [/quote
What would be your response if there was a news article that said,
20 year old non-drinker beauty queen dies of rare liver disease days after a compatible liver was given to 22 year old alcoholic binge drinker so he could have a second chance?
Liver donors are far and few between. Do you think that there should be a blind lottery with no decisions based on who gets them.
Once ObamaCare is in place it will be dues-paying democrats first in line, the rest of us will be SOL.