Wait, they transplanted a pig’s kidney into a… corpse? How did they get authorization for that experiment exactly? The family donated the body to science? I know they’d have just kept him on dialysis if they were actually attempting to prolong his heart beating corpse status.
The possibility that pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs persuaded the family of Maurice “Mo” Miller from upstate New York to donate his body for the experiment.
“I struggled with it,” his sister, Mary Miller-Duffy, told the AP about her decision. But he liked helping others and “I think this is what my brother would want. So I offered my brother to them.”
"He’s going to be in the medical books, and he will live on forever,” she added.
Wait, they transplanted a pig’s kidney into a… corpse? How did they get authorization for that experiment exactly? The family donated the body to science? I know they’d have just kept him on dialysis if they were actually attempting to prolong his heart beating corpse status.