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Mary Roach

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
532 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

for a really good reason and good things happen.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

So there's absolutely no reason for me not to have signed those papers.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

What if they get you and they don't want you?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

It is.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

I was told by the folks at CORE in Pittsburgh, they're like,

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

I think it was 90% of people don't make the, it's Yale has a higher acceptance rate because it's like, you can't, there's so many diseases that you might've had also lifestyle things.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

If there's any needles, like if you had a tattoo, have you used needle drugs?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Have you had sex with any used needle drugs?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Have you this, have you that?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Did you ever have this disease or that disease?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

So they don't want a lot of people.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

But if you get rejected, your feelings at that point can't be hurt.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Yeah, I love that like CORE, they give the person who's getting the body part, the bit of bone or whatever it is they're getting, they give them the option to write a letter to the family.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And I read some of those letters and they're so nice.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

They're so lovely.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

You've made this huge difference in the life of my husband or me or whatever.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And that goes to the family of the donor, which is lovely.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

And I hope that they all do that because what a great thing to hear from the person who got

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Your Achilles heel or whatever.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach

Yeah.