Sixteen hours into a transplant operation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, surgeons finish the intricate task of removing the face from an organ donor (a woman who had died 3 days prior). Awed by the sight and by the gravity of their work, the team falls suddenly silent as staff members document the face in between its two lives. The surgeons would spend 15 more hours attaching the face to Katie Stubblefield, a girl who had blown up her face at 18 yrs old using a gun in a failed suicide.(Source)
Organ/tissue donation can do so much good
That’s why I asked my loved ones to donate all they can of me, cremate the rest, and spread me in the woods
My God… It’s dark, morbid, even. And yet amazing. Interesting… I’m in this mixed feeling of awe-stricken and what the fuck.
