“Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift,” said the statement from an aide, Kara Ahern.
The New York Times, March 25, 2012
News that the former US vice president, Richard Cheney, has gotten a million-dollar heart transplant at the age of 71 gives rise to hopes that his brush with mortality and long forthcoming convalescence will temper his snarling contempt for more ordinary Americans who, without his wealth and connections and health insurance, would have- in his position- just died.
If there's a good thing about being an organ donor, it's that I'll be dead when mine get parceled out, and so won't know I may have helped keep a man like Cheney alive for a few more years.
For that matter, Cheney probably wouldn't like having mine, either.
The New York Times, March 25, 2012
News that the former US vice president, Richard Cheney, has gotten a million-dollar heart transplant at the age of 71 gives rise to hopes that his brush with mortality and long forthcoming convalescence will temper his snarling contempt for more ordinary Americans who, without his wealth and connections and health insurance, would have- in his position- just died.
If there's a good thing about being an organ donor, it's that I'll be dead when mine get parceled out, and so won't know I may have helped keep a man like Cheney alive for a few more years.
For that matter, Cheney probably wouldn't like having mine, either.
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