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Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

• slv77 10y ago
  "And there once was a generation so selfish they even harvested the blood of their own children to prolong their own lives." "Grandma, you're telling stories again. That couldn't possibly be true!" "I swear on my husbands grave that it was true! They even levied a tax on them and made them pay for the treatment."
  • nojvek 10y ago
    We are all equal but some are more equal than others. Those who are more equal have more money therefore they can officially buy bodies and rent their blood to others.
• pcrh 10y ago
  For one, too frequent transfusions results in toxic excess levels of iron in the body, as humans cannot actively remove excess iron. This occurs in people with thalassemia treated with blood transfusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/
  • o_____________o 10y ago
    So extract some of the recipient's blood before they receive a transfusion? This could be donated to a blood bank.
    • therein 10y ago
      Or reduce the iron concentration in the blood you are transferring.