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Topic: organ donation

Surgeons performing open heart surgery (Getty Images/Thierry Dosogne)

Pig-heart transplant successful

Rae Hodge
Medical team in a hurry carrying an organ transplants box by ambulance, with heart rate monitor (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How dead is "dead enough"?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP)

Believe in the kindness of strangers

Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz - The Conversation
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pot kills

Trey Reckling - The Fresh Toast

Joanna Rothkopf
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Stu Strumwasser
Kidneys (via Wikipedia)

Bjorn Carey - Popular Science