Today I met someone who had a surgical intervention where they added a cadaver bone to his back and…I had no idea that was a thing?

@toddgrotenhuis I’d not heard of that either.This makes me realise that although I’m not at all religious I’d hope that for any such transfer of one person’s body part into another that there is some kind of ritual where the ‘donator’ is thanked for providing this gift and that the arrival of that gift into the body of the recipient is marked. In the most generic terms some kind of blessing on both sides, rather than a simply clinical “OK, we’ve extracted it” and “OK, we’ve inserted it”. I’m not sure if I feel that same way about blood transfusions, for some reason… Food for thought, anyway.

@Miraz That’s beautiful. Bringing the sacred, reverential and gratitude to the surgical room.
@toddgrotenhuis

@crossingthethreshold @toddgrotenhuis Something to do with the humanness of it. A transplant like that is more than just a mechanical transaction. I’ve never thought about it before.