With reference to Archie Battersbee case, the boy is essentially dead, with his life supported by machines keeping him alive. How do people then die in hospital from much less smaller problems, let’s say liver failure or kindey failure or pancreatitis. Why can’t we plug them to a machine that acts like the failing organ keeping them alive until they can get a donor?
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Some of these organs just do fairly complex regulatory roles. The liver for instance disarms stuff it is essentially your toxin cleaning system… this includes kinda unpacking hormones and digesting sugars and such…so it is quite a complex thing for some machine to do itself.
The lungs and heart can be aided by machines somewhat and many more can be delayed with machines too… but ultimately if you die of organ failure it is just one important link keeping you alive breaking down.
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