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single point of failure
January 13, 2008 by NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis (not verified), 1 year 45 weeks ago
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What bothers me is that the human body has duplication for most functions except circulation. We have a brain that can withstand damage thanks to its many neurons, two hands, etc, but everything can fail from a single dysfunctional heart. Perhaps in the future when technology will allow it newborn will get a second semi-artificial heart by default in a standard medical operation after birth. As for the supply for donor organs, perhaps the problem is partially due to unavailability of information on the organ donation process. Perhaps there should be more exposure of the public to the idea of donating organs.