"Jennifer, you're ten years old. Act your age. You've known you were going to have to do this for a long time." "But I don't want to!" "Don't you want to see your brother get better? If you don't go through with this and he dies, it'll be your fault." "But I'm scared!" We are now creating children to save the lives of their older siblings. The blood from their umbillical chords are one way the birth can save lives, but tissue donation and marrow donation are others. Admittedly, I ...
We've seen soldiers coming back from the war getting thier new limbs. The doctors tell them they'll work better than their old ones. And I've heard this is true; runners usually run faster, rock climber achieve new heights, if you will, and other athletes across the board perform better once they've adapted. We all accept the new prosthetics when we see them in use. It's not their actual arm... but it is. Now. And it works. And we're glad. Already, amazing surgeries to fix our organs (eye...