What you want? What you need?

Saw an episode of 'Superhuman' on BBC Knowledge. The episode talked about bodypart replacement. I'm not going to talk about the medical/technical side of it, i'm not knowledgable enough anyway. What intrigued me is some of the meaningful quotes in the episode.

First "What you want may not be what you need." The risk of getting a biological transplant is that the patient has to consume many drugs for the rest of their lives to repress the immune system. The immune's system purpose is to defend us from alien substances in our body regardless whether it is harming us or not. So because of this, the immune system would attack the transplant's cells because obviously it is someone else's cell structure and hence our immune system rejects it. In short, it's risky, and so what that particular patient said is that if a person have a good social life, good work relationship and a supportive family, don't do it just to make yourself feel and look good.

Another one is "I'm a see-food person, i see food and i eat it." Hahaha, for your information this guy has got heart problems and is waiting for a heart transplant in hospital. So jokes aside, don't do what he does and eat moderately and healthily to have a better quality of life.

And finally, "It's frightening to think that my life depends on another person's death." To get a heart transplant, the donor obviously has to be dead. This shows regardless of what really happened on any particular situation a certain level of guilt will always be felt by the beneficiary (unless of course he's morally inept). So before doing anything rash which you may think noble and will benefit others by being selfless, think it through first and think whether they'd really be grateful or be burdened by it.

That's all for now. Goodbye~~~