Is David Cassidy dead?

So very sad... in many ways.

I bought his records and had his posters on my wall for a long time in my teen years... as did millions of other girls my age... One of the biggest teeny bopper Idols worldwide.... ever..


R.I.P David, you were part of our teen experience..may your demons be at rest now
 

Back when I was in the 5th grade I use to make fun of a girl because all she talked about was David Cassidy. I'm sure it was out of jealousy. Anyway, soon after Olivia Newton John hit the scene and I no longer could make fun of her "crush" :rolleyes: R.I.P.
 
Ha!Ha! So funny to think back of celebrity crushes. I wrote to Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy and received the typical fan stuff in the mail. :love_heart: If I remember right, I think I even put lipstick on and sealed the back of the envelope with a kiss! No kidding.:redface-new:
 
Kaya said:
I guess I am not human anymore then. Dude ruined his own body. I didn't wish him ill, but I also didn't want him pushed to the front of the line, either.
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I don't think he would be "pushed to the front of the line" just because he is a celeb. There is the matter of matching the donor organ to the recipient, for one thing: when an organ becomes available, it is quickly entered into a computer database that generates a list of potential recipients, based on objective criteria - blood and tissue types, size of the organ, medical urgency of the patient, time on the waiting list, and distance between donor and recipient. Each organ has its own specific criteria.

Ethnicity, gender, religion, addictions, fame and fortune are not factors in that database.

The surgeon who will perform the transplant is notified and will decide whether to accept the donation, based upon the current health of the recipient. This is where age or pre-existing conditions may determine the outcome.

It is actually the donor who is usually screened for medical and social histories, so that is where a history of drug or alcohol abuse is usually noted and is considered a negative for donation.

Most of us "ruin our bodies" in ways small or large - who is to say who is worthy? I certainly wouldn't want to be the judge of that ...
 
SifuPhil said:
I don't think he would be "pushed to the front of the line" just because he is a celeb. There is the matter of matching the donor organ to the recipient, for one thing: when an organ becomes available, it is quickly entered into a computer database that generates a list of potential recipients, based on objective criteria - blood and tissue types, size of the organ, medical urgency of the patient, time on the waiting list, and distance between donor and recipient. Each organ has its own specific criteria.

Ethnicity, gender, religion, addictions, fame and fortune are not factors in that database.

The surgeon who will perform the transplant is notified and will decide whether to accept the donation, based upon the current health of the recipient. This is where age or pre-existing conditions may determine the outcome.

It is actually the donor who is usually screened for medical and social histories, so that is where a history of drug or alcohol abuse is usually noted and is considered a negative for donation.

Most of us "ruin our bodies" in ways small or large - who is to say who is worthy? I certainly wouldn't want to be the judge of that ...
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The uproar over the liver that got wasted on Mickey Mantle changed the way many transplant programs are administered. In the only area hospital that performs major organ transplants, a team makes transplant decisions, not the surgeons, and they definitely monitor very closely the health of the recipient. The harvest team is a whole other story; they're the ones who are responsible for information about the donor.
 
Larry Hagman from the show Dallas had a liver transplant as well, I can't remember if there was an uproar from that though.
 
I don't remember it, if there was.

A friend was the coordinator of the local transplant unit for a time. He said the recipients were required to sign agreements that they would not self-abuse after they received an organ. He said they would see them at their regular checkups and it would be obvious they had been smoking or drinking or whatever they did before, but there was no real penalty for going back to the way they lived pre-transplant. He said it was hard because he knew the donor families agreed to the harvest believing someone was being given a chance at life.
 
CindyLouWho said:
Ha!Ha! So funny to think back of celebrity crushes. I wrote to Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy and received the typical fan stuff in the mail. :love_heart: If I remember right, I think I even put lipstick on and sealed the back of the envelope with a kiss! No kidding.:redface-new:
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SWAK. I remember that. LoL. :love_heart:
 
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