What is it worth to get a few more years on your life?

Would you be willing to become part pig? An amalgamation?

I once read a novel, it was old, maybe from the 1930s or before, about a man who lived on an old farm, and there were ancient passages under his land, with some ancient evil living there, and his house was constantly getting raided at night by pig people. I don’t remember the name of it. I don’t think the author was particularly famous and was sort of doing his own take on HP Lovecraft and Ambrose Bierce (both of whom were much better than the writer of this story I’m talking about).

Anyway, I will always think of that when I think of pig humanoids.

I wouldn’t want to be a pig humanoid.

I’d rather die.

CNN:

For 66-year-old Tim Andrews, it was a matter of life or death.

Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney disease. He was on the transplant wait list for a new kidney, but his blood type made it particularly difficult to find a donor organ.

The average wait time for a kidney is three to five years at most centers, but studies have found that people with type-O blood can wait as long as 10 years to receive a kidney. His chances of living five more years on long-term dialysis are just around 35%. His doctors estimated that he had about a 9% chance of getting an organ in the next five years.

Andrews said he had a “shortage of time.”

“It really becomes very, very depressing that this is it, you know? ” he recalls thinking. “This is how I’m going to end my life. I’m going to be going to dialysis and being tired.”

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig.

How could you not hesitate?

Nigga, you’re 66.

How long are you planning on going for? As a pig humanoid?

“All of a sudden, I’m not in the darkness. I’m going to get better. I am going to do this,” Andrews said in a hospital interview shared with journalists.

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that Andrews had successfully received the pig kidney. The January 25 procedure took place through the US Food and Drug Administration’s Expanded Access pathway, often known as compassionate use, which allows patients with life-threatening conditions to access investigational medical products. He’ll be the first in a three-patient study and is the second person currently living in the world with a pig kidney.

The team at Massachusetts General used an organ developed by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech company eGenesis.

“Our three-patient study this year will provide critical insights into the long-term viability of xenotransplants as a transformative solution for thousands of patients in need of a life-saving kidney,” Dr. Leonardo Riella, medical director for kidney transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement.

🚨BREAKING: Our report on the first-ever pig kidney xenotransplant in a living human with ESRD is now published in @NEJM! A major milestone in transplantation, paving the way for a new era of organ replacement @mgh_transplant @MGHKidneys @eGenesisBio more: https://t.co/sdDOwUlsph

— Leonardo V. Riella (@LVRiella) February 7, 2025

The practice of transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. However, in the past three years, half a dozen such procedures have taken place in the United States using pigs that have been genetically modified, so their organs are more compatible with humans’.

Using the gene-editing technique CRISPR, scientists can modify the pig’s DNA. eGenesis workers make more than 60 edits to help manage a host of potential issues including rejection, size of the organ and even pig retroviruses that could potentially infect humans.

Another biotech company, United Therapeutics, announced this week that it had received the green light from the FDA to move forward with a xenotransplant trial with its pig kidneys, which have 10 gene edits. The company expects to perform the first of six initial transplants in people with end-stage kidney disease in the middle of 2025, with the intent of expanding the trial to a total of 50 patients.

United Therapeutics expects pig kidney transplants to be an established option for patients by the end of this decade, spokesperson Dewey Steadman said.

If they can grow pig-humanoid organs, they could just as easily grow human organs from your cells.

But do we really need any of this?

Is death not a part of life? The most important part?

Towana Looney, the only person in the world with a functioning pig organ transplant, is thriving two months after the procedure.

Morgan Norwood has the update. pic.twitter.com/YNLv0DK0zv

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) January 26, 2025

Lisa Pisano

If some scientists tells you “you can either die or we can put a pig organ in your body,” the decision should not be difficult.

You shouldn’t have gotten that fat in the first place, retard.

New York Post:

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant — along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday.

Lisa Pisano was near death from kidney and heart failure when surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the dramatic pair of surgeries in April.

The New Jersey woman initially seemed to be recovering well but about 47 days later, doctors had to remove the pig kidney and put Pisano back on dialysis after the organ was damaged by her heart medications.

Despite the dialysis and implanted heart pump, Pisano eventually entered hospice care and died Sunday, NYU Langone transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery said in a statement.

Montgomery praised Pisano’s bravery for attempting the latest pig organ-to-human experiment, what’s called xenotransplantation.

The research aims to one day shore up the dire shortage of transplantable organs.

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Several biotech companies are genetically modifying pigs so their organs are more humanlike, less likely to be destroyed by people’s immune systems.

Science has gone too far.

We have enough.

We need to start rolling this back.

We need some kind of Mad Max type reset.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health recently completed the first-ever combined heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant in a living patient with heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, who otherwise had no options for a better quality of life: https://t.co/ILQcz2OU5Z pic.twitter.com/frb23zVmr2

— NYU Langone Health (@nyulangone) April 24, 2024

We’re going to have to start carrying cards in our wallets alongside our “I am not an organ donor” cards that say “do not put pig organs in my body.”

It is simply not reasonable to put pig organs in your body.

CNN:

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday.

The subject, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease that required routine dialysis, NYU Langone said in a news release. But she couldn’t have a standard heart or kidney transplant because of other chronic medical conditions that “significantly reduced the likelihood of a good outcome” and because of an overall lack of donor organs in the US.

“When that opportunity first came to me, I was like, ‘I gotta try it,’ ” Pisano said during a news conference Wednesday from her bed in the intensive care unit.

“I’ve tried everything else, and I’ve exhausted all other resources. So when this opportunity came, I said, ‘I’m gonna take advantage of it,’ ” she said, hoping to “spend time with my grandkids and play with them.”

The need for organs far outstrips the number available. Every day, 17 people die in the US waiting for an organ, and kidneys are in shortest supply. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, roughly 27,000 kidneys were transplanted in 2023, but nearly 89,000 people were on the waiting list for those organs.

Experts say xenotransplants – transplants of animal organs into people – are crucial to solving the organ shortage. Gene editing makes precise edits to a pig’s DNA to help keep the human body from recognizing the animal’s organs as foreign and rejecting them.

Pisano got the heart pump on April 4 and then, on April 12, received a gene-edited pig kidney along with the pig’s thymus gland. Her case is the first reported organ transplant in a person with a mechanical heart pump, NYU Langone says, and it’s the second known transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a living recipient and the first transplanted along with the thymus.

The first living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney, 62-year-old Rick Slayman, received the organ at Massachusetts General Hospital in March and was able to go home this month. Pig hearts have also been transplanted into two living people who died within weeks of receiving the organs.

No one wants to die. I mean, some people do actually, and I respect them for that. But in general, people don’t want to die. And when you’re in a hospital bed, high on opioids, and someone comes in and says “yeah, you can keep living, but we’re going to have to put parts of a pig inside of you,” most people will probably go along with it.

But is this justice?

Surgeons Transplant World’s First Genetically Edited Pig Kidney Into a Living Human

“This pig kidney had 69 genomic edits to improve compatibility and to reduce the risk of infection from viruses.” pic.twitter.com/wfVzTMZj84

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 22, 2024

The doctors and scientists who did the first pig kidney transplant into a live human patient said it’s a big step forward. They think it could help the patients waiting for kidney transplants or on dialysis https://t.co/IBI8Y36DBH pic.twitter.com/rBzuwZ5kx5

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 22, 2024

The Science is at it again!

Turning humans into pigs!

CNN:

Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human, they announced Thursday.

The four-hour surgery was performed Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital, which was also the first hospital to perform a kidney transplant in 1954.

The patient, Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old manager with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation who had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, is recovering well and expected to be discharged from the hospital soon.

Doctors said Thursday that they thought his new kidney could last years but also acknowledged that there are many unknowns in animal-to-human transplants.

In a written statement provided by the hospital, Slayman said he had been a patient in the hospital’s transplant program for 11 years. He previously received a kidney from a human donor in 2018 after living with diabetes and high blood pressure for many years. That kidney began to show signs of failure five years later, and he resumed dialysis in 2023.

When he was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease last year, he said, his doctors suggested that he try a pig kidney.

“I saw it not only as a way to help me, but a way to provide hope for the thousands of people who need a transplant to survive,” Slayman said in the statement.

Doctors who were not involved in the case said the surgery represented a significant medical milestone.

“To finally see this come to fruition after years of work and collaboration is really a huge step forward and a great moment for transplant,” said Dr. Parsia Vagefi, chief of surgical transplantation at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance and the surgeon who performed the operation, said the pig organ was exactly the same size as a human kidney.

When they stitched it in, connecting its blood vessels to Slayman’s, Kawai said, it immediately “pinked up” and began to make urine. The 15-member transplant team in the operating room burst into applause, he said.

“It was truly the most beautiful kidney I have ever seen,” Kawai said Thursday in a news briefing that was emotional for the doctors involved, some of whom have worked on this research for their entire careers.

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The organ came from a pig that was genetically modified by a company eGenesis Bio to make it more compatible with a human. Other companies are also working to make pig tissues and organs suitable for xenotransplants.

People will say “oh well, I wouldn’t want to die either.”

But is that true?

Would you really rather become part pig than simply die?

Is dying really that big of a deal?

Nurse removes the pig kidney from its box.

Humanoid pigs?

We need this shit, badly.

New York Post:

Surgeons externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood, a step toward eventually trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants.

Rock n’ roll, baby!

Science!

Yeah!

In this case, the pig liver was used outside the donated body, not inside — a way to create a “bridge” to support failing livers by doing the organ’s blood-cleansing work externally, much like dialysis for failing kidneys.

Animal-to-human transplants, called xenotransplants, have failed for decades because people’s immune systems rejected the foreign tissue.

Now scientists are trying again with pigs whose organs have been genetically modified to be more humanlike.

In recent years, kidneys from genetically modified pigs have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors to see how well they function, and two men received heart transplants from pigs although both died within months.

The US Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to allow a small number of Americans who need a new organ to volunteer for rigorous studies of either pig hearts or kidneys.

They’re lying about this organ thing.

Well, surely they’re doing that also. But really, they’re trying to genetically engineer pig-humanoids as a new slave class.

It’s like “The Island of Doctor Moreau.”

By the way, the 1990s version of that film with Marlon Brando is really top stuff.

Major breakthrough as pig-to-human kidney transplant succeeds for a month@eriknjoka brings you this report

Watch more: https://t.co/wojetdJccS pic.twitter.com/ts6VZURUur

— WION (@WIONews) August 16, 2023

With only a single genetic modification—and no experimental medications or devices—a pig kidney xenotransplantation at NYU Langone Health led by Dr. Robert Montgomery continues to function optimally after 32 days.

Learn more about this new milestone: https://t.co/bL29j3HrQN pic.twitter.com/ebRiNfc40Z

— NYU Grossman School of Medicine (@nyugrossman) August 16, 2023

This is some kind of sick sorcery.

Blood banks were bad enough, but pig organs in humans are beyond the pale.

Wouldn’t you rather just die than become part pig?

Why is everyone so afraid of death? 

New York Post:

In a medical breakthrough, NYU Langone Health surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a brain-dead man, who has now survived on the organ for more than a month.

“This represents the longest period that a gene-edited pig kidney has functioned in a human, and the latest step toward the advent of an alternate, sustainable supply of organs for transplant,” according to an NYU Langone Health news release.

The surgical staff also gave a special thanks to Mary Miller Duffy, the sister of the brain-dead man, Maurice Miller, who allowed her brother’s body to be used for the innovative procedure.

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Research on the first-of-its-kind operation, which took place July 14, will continue into mid-September, as doctors monitor how long the animal’s kidney will function properly inside a human body beyond 32 days.

The pig kidney had only “one genetic modification and [is] without experimental medications or devices,” according to Montgomery.

In xenotransplants, the medical term for a cross-species organ transplant, Montgomery and his team had to create a unique solution for the patient’s body to avoid “hyperacute rejection” of the animal’s organ once it connected to the 57-year-old man’s circulatory system.

This was done by “knocking out” the alpha-gal gene that doctors altered to prevent a rejection in the man.

Additionally, the pig’s thymus gland — which communicates with its immune system — “was embedded underneath the outer layer of the kidney to stave off novel, delayed immune responses.”

“The combination of modifications has been shown to prevent rejection of the organ while preserving kidney function,” according to NYU.

This potentially game-changing surgery, part of a larger study on the subject, could someday prove an efficient treatment for the more than 103,000 people in need of organ transplants across the US.

“There are simply not enough organs available for everyone who needs one,” said Montgomery, who himself had a heart transplant five years ago. “Too many people are dying because of the lack of available organs, and I strongly believe xenotransplantation is a viable way to change that.”

Well.

They’re not putting any pig organs in me, I can tell you that much.

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