Bush protected ghouls?

[sunny]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/05/bad-parts-yes-theres-bush-connection.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...ction.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>~snip~<br><br>Remember funeralgate? This was the scandal that threatened Bush's presidency before it began; the details are here and here. To summarize:<br><br>In 1999, Eliza May -- executive director of the Texas Funeral Service Commission -- was hot on the trail of SCI (Service Corp. International), the world's largest funeral company, based in Houston. May believed that SCI had committed grave acts (so to speak) against their clients.<br><br>But the head of SCI, Robert Waltrip, was a close friend to the Bush family and a big contributor. Waltrip called on Joseph Albaugh (then a key aide to then-governor Bush; Albaugh later ran FEMA) , and asked for help. According to one report published in Newsweek, Bush himself was present during a meeting with Albaugh, Waltrip and an SCI lawyer.<br><br>A short while later, investigator May was fired. She sued for wrongful termination and eventually won $210,000.<br><br>As we noted above, funeral homes across the country have been linked to the body parts scandal. SCI controls a large proportion of that trade.<br><br>And just what sort of activities aroused the interest of Eliza May and others? Consumer Justice Attorneys Ricci-Leopold have a few words to say on that score:<br><br>The civil suit, now on behalf of 50 families states a number of claims against Menorah Gardens/Service Corporation International which include secretly breaking and opening burial vaults and dumping remains in a wooded area where the remains may have been consumed by wild animals; burying remains in locations other than those purchased by plaintiffs; crushing burial vaults in order to make room for other vaults; burying remains on top of the other rather than side-by-side; secretly digging up and removing remains; secretly burying remains head-to-foot rather than side-by-side; secretly mixing body parts and remains from different individuals; secretly allowing plots owned by one part to be occupied by a different person; secretly selling plots in rows where there were more graves assigned than the rows could accommodate; secretly allowed graves to encroach on other plots; secretly sold plots so narrow that the plots could not accommodate standard burial vaults; secretly participated in the desecration of gravesites and markers and failed to exercise reasonable care in handling the plaintiff's loved ones remains.<br>(Emphasis added.) Secretly mixing body parts and remains from different individuals...? In light of the nationwide "chop shop" scandal, that phrase must give us pause.<br><br>~snip~ <p></p><i></i>

[Chiaroscuro]

I read of this around a year ago in the regular media. At the time I wondered what does this do to the patients get these parts without their knowledged beyond the disease risks getting tissues from people who died of cancer or of/with infectious disese present. I had read the following article on suspected celluar memories in people who got heart transplants. The cases mentioned had people make EXTREME changes in their life after their transplant.<br><br>Organ Transplants and Cellular Memories<br><br>According to this study of patients who have received transplanted organs, particularly hearts, it is not uncommon for memories, behaviours, preferences and habits associated with the donor to be transferred to the recipient. <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/CellularMemories.html">www.nexusmagazine.com/art...ories.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Case 5<br>The donor was a 19-year-old woman killed in an automobile accident. The recipient was a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with cardiomyopathy secondary to endocarditis.<br>The donor's mother reported:<br>"My Sara was the most loving girl. She owned and operated her own health food restaurant and scolded me constantly about not being a vegetarian. She was a great kid. Wild, but great. She was into the free-love thing and had a different man in her life every few months. She was man crazy when she was a little girl and it never stopped. She was able to write some notes to me when she was dying. She was so out of it, but she kept saying how she could feel the impact of the car hitting them. She said she could feel it going through her body."<br><br>The recipient reported:<br>"You can tell people about this if you want to, but it will make you sound crazy. When I got my new heart, two things happened to me. First, almost every night, and still sometimes now, I actually feel the accident my donor had. I can feel the impact in my chest. It slams into me, but my doctor said everything looks fine. Also, I hate meat now. I can't stand it. I was McDonald's biggest money-maker, and now meat makes me throw up. Actually, when I even smell it, my heart starts to race. But that's not the big deal. My doctor said that's just due to my medicines.<br>"I couldn't tell him, but what really bothers me is that I'm engaged to be married now. He's a great guy and we love each other. The sex is terrific. The problem is, I'm gay. At least, I thought I was. After my transplant, I'm not...I don't think, anyway...I'm sort of semi- or confused gay. Women still seem attractive to me, but my boyfriend turns me on; women don't. I have absolutely no desire to be with a woman. I think I got a gender transplant."<br><br>The recipient's brother reported:<br>"Susie's straight now. I mean it seriously. She was gay and now her new heart made her straight. She threw out all her books and stuff about gay politics and never talks about it any more. She was really militant about it before. She holds hands and cuddles with Steven just like my girlfriend does with me. She talks girl-talk with my girlfriend, where before she would be lecturing about the evils of sexist men. And my sister, the queen of the Big Mac, hates meat. She won't even have it in the house." <p></p><i></i>