The clinical lab just informed me that an 81 year old patient with numerous facial piercings requested the bones and tissue from her total knee replacement be given to her
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Note to future selves: If you want a recording of the operation, or you want the "used body parts" back, make sure this is settled with the doctors BEFORE you schedule the procedure.
Yeah, shit. I'm offended that she would be denied possession of her own body parts. I'll grant that what she wants to do is creepy, but what's hers is hers.
Not to get all morally relativist but by California law I know I'm not allowed to eat a horse and I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to eat a dog either. Why should a dog be allowed to eat me?
Well, there are a few different questions tangled up in one another:
* When parts are removed from a person's body, who has the right to decide on their disposition? * Is it acceptable for a dog owner to feed human body parts to that dog? * If we assume that the woman is entitled to her own body parts, are her rights forfeit if she plans to do something unacceptable with them?
I should also be clear and point out that I am talking about morality and not law.
My own answers to these questions are: the patient, no, and no.
I've had various hardware inserted and extracted from my body. I was told on more then one occasion that I could have the hardware after pathology was done with it. I did have one occasion where I was facing the prospect of having my leg amputated at the knee, and the doctor and I discussed the possibility of having the bones given to me afterwards. As it didn't have to be amputated, there was no resolution. But, the doctor was not opposed outright to it.
The teeth-to-tattoo ratio is self-explanatory doctor jargon. The TTR tracks social classes. An oddity is that the people with the lowest TTR are extremely hardy physical specimens and survive medical situations that kill people with higher TTRs.
My TTR is lower than it looks: my bicuspids were pulled to make room for the rest of my teeth. Braces were disappointing in that I lost my vampire fangs: my canines had ridden up about 1/8-1/4 inch. Also I lost my front gap and could no longer shoot water long distances.
Fangs as a kid, vampire hair as I age. In between I had to work to look abnormal.
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* When parts are removed from a person's body, who has the right to decide on their disposition?
* Is it acceptable for a dog owner to feed human body parts to that dog?
* If we assume that the woman is entitled to her own body parts, are her rights forfeit if she plans to do something unacceptable with them?
I should also be clear and point out that I am talking about morality and not law.
My own answers to these questions are: the patient, no, and no.
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I did have one occasion where I was facing the prospect of having my leg amputated at the knee, and the doctor and I discussed the possibility of having the bones given to me afterwards. As it didn't have to be amputated, there was no resolution. But, the doctor was not opposed outright to it.
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My TTR is lower than it looks: my bicuspids were pulled to make room for the rest of my teeth. Braces were disappointing in that I lost my vampire fangs: my canines had ridden up about 1/8-1/4 inch. Also I lost my front gap and could no longer shoot water long distances.
Fangs as a kid, vampire hair as I age. In between I had to work to look abnormal.
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