I wondered why she was driving around with a cooler full of ice in her back seat.

How much is she offering?

Has she considered cow?

haha...instead of weird..i think this deserves a "cool"

Why doesn't she just go to India or China and buy one?

i gotta whole mess of 'em for her:

"His neck, which had a rope around it, bore vicious slice wounds. His torso had been nonsurgically cut open, and his heart, liver, one of his kidneys, and the top of his esophagus had been removed. Whether Kent was murdered has yet to be determined."

It could just be that he died of natural causes.

She should set up a web site. If Karen can pay off her credit card bills, then this lady ought to be able to find a kidney.

Don't know how this can be considered weird.

It's called self preservation. Some people just don't like dying. Go figure.

After last night,I could use a new liver while she's at it.

Actually, I might do it if she paid for the free trip to Australia. Go spend a couple weeks rehabbing on the beach...

Of course you're going to be taken off the list.

Let someone else who has a life to live take that kidney.

You don't see old things in nature due to natural selection. Therefore old people are un-natural.

Shiftless - Oh lord. She hasn't even hit 60 yet.

As for "natural", it's mighty overrated. I'll take unnatural stuff like medicine, indoor plumbing, hygiene and computers any day.

Three-hour dialysis sessions at least five times a week to stay alive
It's worked for 10 years now. Stick with what you know.

Amusing.

Is that 'Madonna - American Life' MP3 on the sidebar because she's giving you some kind of 'Madonna Points' for each click or because you like to keep the music over there consistantly shiatty?

Poor lady. Needs a "sad" tag. She's probably not going to get one because of the age factor but then she wasn't too old when she was put on the list originally. I'd rather see her get it than that woman in prison for murder thats on the list for liver donation.

You don't see old things in nature due to natural selection. Therefore old people are un-natural.

There are trees that live 7000 years plus. There are fish that live two hundred years. There are birds that live longer than we do. We're not exactly short-lived for mammals our size, but we're certainly not remarkably long lived in the big picture.

And yes, I know you were joking. Or rather I hope you were.

You guys are terrible. Tell you what.. Someone pay off my $4000 credit card debt, and she can have one of mine.

Got kidney?

There are fish that live two hundred years. There are birds that live longer than we do. We're not exactly short-lived for mammals our size, but we're certainly not remarkably long lived in the big picture.

I'm not a fishologist but I beleive that fish don't even age. They only will die from diseases and other fish.... I'm going to eat some old lady tonight.... not like that.

I don't know whether they age or not, actually. I actually have taken a class in ichthyology, but it was more about species identification and anatomy than any sort of process-oriented stuff that would get into that question. I do know that death by old age is pretty much unheard of. They always get taken down by disease, parasites, or other fish. That doesn't necessarily mean they don't age, it just means that they might age so slowly that the ravages of time stand no chance against the ravages of other fish. So to speak.

I said actually twice in three words. That's actually very annoying, actually.

Ah, God Bless public health care. You may not get the treatment your life depends upon, but hey, at least everybody is equal!

The moment this type of health care system becomes mandatory in the United States (like it is in Ontario, or so I hear, where you cannot choose private health care even if you so wish), I'm going to buy a gun, load it with one bullet, stick the barrel in my mouth, and pull the trigger. That is, if our second amendment rights haven't eroded by then, either.

Liberals, "pro-choice" except in those many cases when you want to do something that offends their socialistic sensibilities.

(sits back and watches the flames ensue)

Anything that has genes ages.

Anything that moves forward through time ages, if you wanna be picky about it. DNA's not even a prerequisite. The question at hand is really whether or not there is degeneration with age and death from age.

For once and for all, make organ donation a requirement, by law, at death. Would solve a whole buncha problems.

Unless, of course, you can explain what you plan on doing with certain organs once you're dead.

- Private heath care ruled by competition
- Manditory organ donation at death
- Science first, religion second

Sometimes its logic that solves everything, folks.

It would help the situation immensely if every Farker took out his driver's license and signed the organ donor card right now.

Of course, some of your livers may be a little pickled, but the rest should be okay.

You won't need em where you're goin'....reduce, reuse, recycle!

It would help the situation immensely if every Farker took out his driver's license and signed the organ donor card right now.

first thing I did when I got my license. And if I was the right blood type I'd offer her my kidney.

And I can understand her frustration. My grandmother was taken off the donor list about a year before she died because of her age. I used to go with her once and while when she did her dialysis, and it was so sad.

Unfortunately, I'm sure her body will reject the new kidney. Doesn't she know relationships born out of classified ads never work out? Her good kidney will probably think the new kidney doesn't make enough money, or drive a nice enough car, and then she'll start filtering blood with the new kidney's best friend or something.

My statement about fish not aging was poorly worded. Of course it ages. Everything ages. Thats obvious. What I meant was that I think that fish don't die from old age in the same way that mammals will.

Fish can die of old age much the same way as every other animal, in the sense that as the body ages its immune system and organs get worn out. So they end up dying of an infection that would normally not be fatal, same as how you sometimes hear of olf people dying from the common cold. With fish of course, there are other factors such as predators, and no medicaid (medicare?) to provide them with the antibiotics they may need.

yea, that's supposed to be "old," not "olf"
Just to clarify for any idiots out there with no innate spell-check skills.

This is a nice story. Good luck to her.

I'd cetainly consider it, but I'm waiting to find out if my mother needs one of mine.