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Jobs: "I could have died" without transplant

updated 06:15 pm EDT, Fri March 19, 2010

CEO pushes for organ donor legislation


Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Friday made a surprise appearance at Lucile Park Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, speaking beside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to a Mercury News report. The public icons joined together to promote legislation designed to help increase the number of organ donations in California.

Jobs admitted that he was lucky to be able to quickly fly to Memphis for a liver transplant during his six-month leave of absence from Apple. "Last year, 400 other Californians died waiting," he said. "I could have died."

The iconic CEO has become a vocal supporter of organ donation. Jobs last year started off a keynote speech acknowledging the transplant and expressing thanks for the generosity of the organ donor.


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  1. Feathers

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    03/19, 07:15pm | report spam | (1 reply) Reply |

    Generosity?

    The donor wasn't generous, the donor was dead. Donating one of your kidneys or some bone marrow is generous.

  1. OtisWild

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    03/19, 07:51pm | report spam | Reply |

    Slippery slope?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0

  1. Arty50

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    03/19, 08:20pm | report spam | (2 replies) Reply |

    What?

    Last I checked, you have to opt in to Organ Donation. That's still being generous in my book. Also, last I checked you only have one liver; so donating that while you're alive would be slightly hazardous to your health...

  1. Salsa

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    03/19, 09:09pm | report spam | Reply |

    Did sign-on for organ donation?

    @Feathers:
    Very few people choose to donate even though it is extremely valuable to the recipient. Hence, the donation is an act of exceptional generosity.

  1. igroucho

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    03/20, 07:25am | report spam | (1 reply) Reply |

    "What?"

    For sure U only have one liver but U can donate part of that organ. The liver consists of lobes and normally U have a significant "overcapacity" in liverfunction, so - like that with kidneys - giving away half your liver will not affect that specific function.
    One more thing: Jobs "could" not have died - he WOULD have died if not for the transplant! He's not out of the bushes yet thou, far from.

  1. AllanCook

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    03/20, 01:40pm | report spam | Reply |

    Steve

    would certainly have died without a liver transplant. I'd sure like to see him throw some of his millions behind an aggressive PSA campaign to increase organ donation or legislation that would permit a presumption that a person's organs may be harvested and transplanted unless they opt out in writing. It is a crying shame that so many viable organs are lost.

  1. Expunged

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    03/20, 03:50pm | report spam | Reply |

    It's Lucile Packard...not "Lucile Park"

    Is there no editorial oversight whatsoever here?

    http://www.lpch.org/

  1. gmsquires

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    03/22, 12:33pm | report spam | Reply |

    Hospital name wrong

    Per Expunged's comment, yes it is Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. Second, yes you can give just part of your liver to someone and survive quite well. Your liver will even grow back to almost it's complete former size. This is the only organ we have that will do so.

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