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Old 04-01-2015, 12:59 PM
 
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This heart could have saved someone else much more deserving.

Heart recipient, Anthony Stokes, dies in high-speed police chase crash in Roswell, Georgia | Daily Mail Online
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Old 04-01-2015, 01:08 PM
 
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Yes, but that would not be politically or culturally Sensitive .

Facebook post from the Atlanta TV reporter who covered the story two years ago:

https://www.facebook.com/JovitaMoore...type=1&theater

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Old 04-01-2015, 01:46 PM
 
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What a waste. Why is this stuff nearly always young black men? I've never seen such general anger in other groups.
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Old 04-01-2015, 02:04 PM
 
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where does a 17 year old get a nice SIG 220 .45 auto pistol like that?
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Heart recipient, 17, dies in high-speed police chase crash he was nearly denied transplant because of bad behavior.-273255ff00000578-3021384-anthony_stokes.jpg  
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Old 04-01-2015, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Texas
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What a waste. Why is this stuff nearly always young black men? I've never seen such general anger in other groups.

What does this person's race have to do with anything? What stuff?
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Old 04-01-2015, 03:44 PM
 
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He received the heart because of pressure from civil rights groups.

I just puked! Enough said here.
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Old 04-01-2015, 04:12 PM
 
Location: Rural Wisconsin
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This just disgusts me. Our son died when he was 19, and we willingly donated his organs as he had requested (although we could not donate his heart because it was too damaged from CPR efforts) because we thought that at least someone else could have a longer and better life, and that was a great comfort to us.

If we had later learned that one of his organs was subsequently wasted by reckless behavior, we would have been very sorrowful and very angry. It seems to me that donor recipients would be very grateful and would not risk "just throwing it away." (And, btw, race would have NOTHING to do with it! Plenty of Caucasian teens engage in reckless behavior, too.)
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Old 04-01-2015, 04:15 PM
 
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Sig Sauer P220 Pistols

Jeez!
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Old 04-01-2015, 04:19 PM
 
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What a waste. Why is this stuff nearly always young black men? I've never seen such general anger in other groups.
You've never heard of a White male involved in a high speed police chase?
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Old 04-01-2015, 04:24 PM
 
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Come on! All transplant recipients have the potential to be bad people, or drink or smoke or do drugs when they would not be able to do so to be on the transplant list. That doesn't mean you deny a teenager from getting a life-saving procedure based on past behavior. A teenager!!

How many people's bad behavior caused the need for transplants? Smoking or drinking too much alcohol probably causes a lot of problems for people. I know someone who got a lung transplant from emphysema caused by smoking.
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