From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Giving blood in 205X: common or rare?
Date:	Wed, 20 May 1998 19:24:57 -0300

Ereskanti wrote:

>>
>
> NOT if you can get a person to become a "Blood Bank" on their own.
What I
> mean by this is the potentially abominational power of "Limb
Donors". Think
> of a clonal body being produced, or a person that is "brain dead" who
has
> decided to be a good samaritan and be an "Organ Donor". In this
case, the
> body is kept alive on an indefinite basis. Organs are removed as
needed, and
> clonal parts are simply regrown within said individual's body. Same
type of
> situation, as long as the body is kept in near-100% health, it can be
used for
> TONS of things. With the right kind of protein and nutrient bathing,
the body
> in question could become nothing more than a "Blood Bank", producing
much
> needed blood for all sorts of medical requirements.


I think they really do thid in SR... In Shadowtech, KAM says
something about
a "host body" for growing bioware and spare organs. Could be a brain
dead person,
or some altered egg designed to become a great mass of "generic" cells
(not from
a specific organ). Then they's make some of those cells transform into
the organ or
piece of bioware as needed. Howz that?

Ubiratan