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Warpy

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2. You're thinking in terms of heart and liver

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Tue Aug 16, 2022, 08:26 AM

Aug 2022

but bone, cartilage, intact skin, and all sorts of other tissue can be harvested and used.

They kept her only technically alive, a ventilator forcing oxygen into her damaged lungs and her circulation propped up by drugs. She was gone, the accident was horrific and not survivable.

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Heche family kept her alive to donate her organs [View all] question everything Aug 2022 OP

Impossible to answer for us. bronxiteforever Aug 2022 #1

You're thinking in terms of heart and liver Warpy Aug 2022 #2

The family is not providing specifics. Mosby Aug 2022 #3