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Can we really transplant the human soul? Dr. Danny Pennman asks this question in his article in the Daily Mail.
The question is not as paradoxical as it might seem at first. sight. After all, the progress of medical science over the past 30 years is so swift that yesterday’s miracles immediately become daily routine. For example, the same heart transplant. She is already has become almost commonplace in hospitals around the world.
And yet, from time to time, a story appears that makes we all think: no, what kind of “routine” is there or “commonplace”! After all, this is a heart transplant, the most important organ! One of these mystical stories became known in April 2008. of the year.
A 69-year-old man named Sonny lived in Vidalia, Georgia. Graham. He was married to his beloved woman and, obviously, happy. And suddenly – shot himself! As the saying goes, for no reason, without any signs of distress or depression.
According to Greg Harvey, an agent of the Bureau of Investigation, Graham was found in the backyard of his house on Tuesday 1 April (which monstrous April Fools’ “joke”!) with a single wound – from shotgun pushed to the throat.
This case, perhaps, would remain only one more an inexplicable tragedy, if not for the fact that 12 years ago Mr. Graham received a heart transplant from a man who also shot himself – under identical circumstances.
The story looks even more intriguing when it becomes Graham spotted a widow shortly after a heart transplant donor and – immediately fell in love with her, and then married her. It was deep and passionate love that captures a person completely and even suppresses the mind.
Hand of fate
Friends and family members say that by 1995 Graham lived under the threat of complete cardiac arrest. But then they called him that in Charleston has a donor heart for him – for some reason he shot himself 33-year-old Terry Cottle.
After the operation, Graham began writing letters to the Kottlov family, expressing their gratitude to them for a new heart. In January 1997, he met with the widow of his donor, 28-year-old Cheryl Cottle. “I have it felt like I had known her for many years, ”Graham said many years later. – I could not take my eyes off her. I watched everything and looked…”.
In 2001, Graham bought a house in Vidalia for Cheryl and her four children. Three years later they got married – after Graham left with work (at Hilton Head he was a factory manager). From previous the couple had a total of six children and six marriages grandchildren scattered throughout South Carolina and Georgia.
In Vidalia, 39-year-old Cheryl began working in several shelters. Graham himself was known to be extremely responsive. “Anytime, if someone had a problem, the first reaction of others was “Call Sonny Graham!” Says Bill Carson, a friend of Graham is over 40 years old. “And it didn’t matter if you got a tire on the edge of the road, or the washing machine broke. He could not even to know you personally, but it would still help. ”
In a word, everything seemed to be going fine, and suddenly – this unexplained suicide! The media immediately reported that the person who had a suicide transplanted heart, married his widow and then killed himself in exactly the same way as the donor – her previous husband.
Bold Heretics
Sonny Graham’s tragedy is easiest to dismiss as simple coincidence. After all, there is no conceivable way, which donor’s memories or character can be transplanted to the recipient along with the heart or any other organ. Almost any scientist will tell you that the heart is just a pump. And the mind, consciousness, soul – all this is somewhere out there, maybe in the brain. The only thing that expresses the control of the heart over the mind is in the fact that the heart sends blood to our brain. Since centuries ago secrets of blood circulation were discovered, this fact is not is doubtful. Okay, well, almost never!
For now, suddenly, several learned brave men began to assert as if our memories and characters are encoded not only in the brain, but in all other organs. Consciousness, they say, – formed by every living cell in the body, and all these cells act together. Moreover, the heart, liver and each individual organ store our memories guide our emotions and are responsible for our own individual character. The reservoir of the soul, if any exists, is our body as a whole, and not just the heart or brain. And if any of the organs is transplanted to another person, then part of the memories – perhaps even some elements of the soul – can also be transferred from donor to recipient.
Unbelievable? But – a fact!
More than 70 cases have already been registered, where patients after transplants have acquired some of the personality traits of the donor. Professor Gary Sworz and colleagues at the University of Arizona documented numerous and, at first glance, unexplained matches related to transplantation. And each such a case is a direct challenge to the medical status quo.
Here is an example. An 18 year old boy who wrote poetry, played on musical instruments and composed songs, died in a car accident. His heart was transplanted to a girl. A year later, parents stumbled upon a film with a song that their son wrote – “Danny, my heart – yours. “The boy sang that he was destined to die and sacrifice your heart is a certain Danny. It turned out that the name of the recipient is Danny, Danielle When the boy’s parents met with Danielle, they turned on the same cassette. And although the girl never heard this song before, she, as it turned out, knows her words and can end any line. “Well, how could he know that my name is Danny?” -astonished saved.
In one equally inexplicable case, a middle-aged man after A heart transplant suddenly ignited a love of classical music. how it turned out his 17-year-old donor adored the classics and played the violin. He was the accidental victim of a street shootout and died while cuddling. violin to the chest. But such “miracles” happen not only after heart transplantation!
Recall the sensational story about how one the patient was transplanted liver of a dead girl. After operation the woman became irresistibly pulled into cafes, night clubs and others such places where she had not looked before. Somehow she “scented” the motel where, as the check-in book showed guests, the unfaithful husband of this woman regularly met with that the girl herself, who later became a donor for his wife! How, where could she get such information? No other than a “liver scented “!
Or take the case of Linda Gammons from British Weston, Lincolnshire. She donated one of the kidneys to her husband Jan. After operations Jan became suspiciously like his wife: fell in love baking, shopping, vacuuming and gardening, even dogs. Before the operation, he hated it all.
But do not bequeath their bodies?
It’s easy to drop stories like fantasy. But here are the Chinese the authorities take them seriously. They started a tracking program. the fate of the recipients. And since in China, many of the “donated” organs are seized from political prisoners, then a cynic might suggest that authorities are concerned about the possible spread or even “epidemic” of seditious political ideas, – together with transplanted bodies.
Biology has a gap: it does not yet have any significant a theory that can explain where and how we store memories, where does it come from and where is consciousness stored. In fact, scientists do not even managed to determine exactly what it is – consciousness. And, therefore, not it is possible that poets, romantics and mystics of all ages were right: the container of our emotions and our souls is the heart.
Now it turns out that not only it, but also other organs body. The hypothesis of the so-called “cellular memory. “Each cell, each molecule and each atom is carried into a strange body information, i.e. transplanted and some of our spirit, our “I”. Who knows – maybe one day the doctors will be in able to offer a “character transplant”?
Do not forget also that with every cell we transplant DNA the donor. Who knows, maybe just the same in the “trash”, “silent” parts of DNA (whose role is still in doubt) and recorded, as if on a computer disk, our addictions, experiences, new habits?
“It’s an interesting story,” writes Englishman Stephen Watte of Southampton. – And there is no better way to inspire a person to bequeathed his organs – after all, the donor will know that, perhaps, part his “I” would live after his death to enjoy music or even to love … ”
“Interesting newspaper. Incredible” №13
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