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  • Suffering from end-stage kidney disease, Richard underwent the groundbreaking procedure in March, only to depart from this world merely two months post-surgery.

    The news of his demise was confirmed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the medical facility behind the historic transplant, on Saturday.

    Either an AI wrote this or somebody needs to take the author’s fucking thesaurus. He has ceased to be. He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible. He is an Ex-pig kidney transplant recipient.


















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    I think neutral gas asphyxiation would be. Unfortunately they usually use carbon dioxide instead for pigs. I consider carbon dioxide to be much worse. It’s both acidic and makes you very aware you’re suffocating. At high concentrations unconsciousness is generally very quick though because your blood will literally dump stored oxygen whenever it encounters high levels of CO2. Makes lungs work in reverse like you were in space.

    Edit: I use your here because I’m only trained in human physiology but it works essentially the same