My only quibble is what is the value of giving a 71 year old man a heart transplant vs. say a 50 year old?
My mom recently died of cirrhosis at 73.
A life long non-drinker.
The transplant center wouldn't give her the time of day because she was over 65.
Too old, they said.
If she was 60 they'd have her on the transplant list.
I like Rod Carew a lot. Great baseball player.
But why so special?
71 isn’t that old anymore, and this guy could easily have another 20 productive years. And certainly, while a transplant is expensive, it is probably less expensive than keeping him going for only a little while longer with a bad liver.
There will be synthetic organs pretty soon, so this won’t be quite such an issue. Unless they start “euthanizing” everybody at age 70, something that could easily happen in the atheistic, utilitarian society we are becoming - where people are only valuable when they’re yielding tax revenue.