Right now, there’s only one way to effectively replace damaged and diseased organs. It’s a morbid truth, but it’s a truth nonetheless: when people pray for an organ to become available for a loved one who needs one, part of what they’re praying for is a deadly car accident. There’s a lot of irony, or some would say logic, in the fact that the Department of Motor Vehicles is the organization that asks people whether they want to be organ donors: each year in the United States alone, more than 35,000 people are killed in motor vehicle accidents, making this mode of death one of the most reliable
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