According to Christiaan Barnard, a cardiovascular surgeon, ‘’for a dying person, a transplant is not a difficult decision. If a lion chases you to a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would never accept such odds if there were no lion (First Human Heart Transplant).’’ A heart transplant is a medical procedure done through surgery for people in need of a healthier heart (Barnard). There are many reasons why some people need healthier hearts. Some reasons are heart disease, heart failure, angina, severe heart defects, irregular heart rhythms and many more. There are also many risks in this procedure. A few of the risk are blood clots, heart attack, stroke, the heart being rejected, high cholesterol, cancer from taking the medication to help the body accept the heart, and damage to some organs. A heart transplant is very dangerous and can be fatal. It can take a very long time for you to find a new heart. It requires someone who is completely brain dead and still on life support. This is a very dangerous procedure because some people’s body will reject the heart. And it comes with a lot of risks. The first human heart transplant is a very big step forward because now some people have a second chance at surviving. The first heart transplant …show more content…
It was changed to total brain death (ANALYSIS: Cover that gets to the heart of the matter). Changing the meaning of death is a social effect. A social effect has to do with people in groups. The groups of people affected by this would be people who have loved ones who are in the hospital. And people who had loved ones who passed away from needing a heart transplant. It gives those people who have loved ones in that situation some hope. They now have hope that there loved may have a chance of surviving instead of them being