Online fundraiser nets nearly $450K for family of deceased priestMiddletown PressThe Norwich Bulletin reports that the fundraising goal of $750,000 is expected to rise with donations. Contributions have come from 4,128 donors. Advertisement. A wake is …
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Don’t think donation matters? Ask Habbina
Clovis News Journal In late September, Habbina became one of a select handful of people in the U.S. to undergo an allogeneic islet cell transplant at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth. Habbina received cells from a deceased donor, which were injected into her … |
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A 114-year-old college that’s closing its doors may have to give more than $50 …
Business Insider Australia My guess is that in those cases they would have to go back to donors, and, if the donors are deceased, to relatives of the donors and get permission from them to use the funds to aid in the closure,” Ehrenberg, a professor of Industrial and Labour … |
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Small gift, great impact: Local woman donates kidney to friend
Ahwatukee Foothills News Knowing some people can go through a dozen possible donors before finding a match, Bland took her case to Facebook and was surprised when a woman she knew, but not well, from church offered her kidney. “I felt moved to do it like it was something I … |
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The (Un)Scene Art Show Aims to Temper the Armory Week Scene
BLOUIN ARTINFO In the packed week of preparation leading up to the show’s opening at 549 W. 52nd Street on March 4 — he reported meeting with carpet donors as early as 3:30 AM — Glass spoke with ARTINFO about what he sees himself working against in more mainstream … |
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Making Gifts Sooner Than Later … Accelerating Charitable Bequests
Insurance News Net For 2012, the most recent year that both Internal Revenue Service and national death statistics are available, some 2.543 million Americans passed away.1 Of that group, just 8,423 estates exceeded the $5.12 million threshold for gift and estate tax … |
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Funerals for Japan’s robot dogs
Echonetdaily The only source of genuine parts are ‘dead‘ robots, who become donors for organ transplantation, but only once the proper respects have been paid. Bungen Oi, a priest at the 450-year-old Kofukuji temple in Isumi, east of Tokyo, says the AIBO service … |
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Next-of-kin consent is the key to increasing organ donations in Australia
Business Insider Australia “Although the deceased organ donor rate is increasing in Australia, it is substantially lower than the highest performing countries (Spain),” writes Associate Professor Michael O’Leary, an intensive care specialist at RPAH. “For this reason, we … |
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Heart travels 562 km to save a life!
Times of India HYDERABAD: It seemed like a sequence straight out of a Hollywood potboiler. A live heart, a 562-km chartered plane ride from Bengaluru to Hyderabad, beacon-light flashing ambulances speeding through a specially created 18-km-long ‘green corridor’ and … |
Getting ahead in lifeBioEdgeWhere would the bodies come from? Deceased donors? Euthanased donors? Altruistic donors? And it might be hard to negotiate laws which assume that a decapitated person is a dead person. A transplant might be seen as murder. E…