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« on: October 04, 2009, 03:44:20 AM »
'Alive' plane crash survivors call for organ donors

Agence France-Presse

August 20, 2009 10:46am

    * Alive survivors urge organ donation
    * They survived a remote crash in the Andes
    * Resorted to cannibalism to stay alive

SURVIVORS of a 1972 plane crash who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive are urging fellow Uruguayans to sign up for a government-run organ donation program.

The 16 crash survivors, who spent 72 days on a remote mountain in the Andes before being rescued, have agreed to lead "an awareness campaign" with the state-run National Donation and Transplant Institute, crash survivor Jose Luis "Coche" Inciarte said today.

The survivors will call for donors to make "a pact with life, like we did up there in the mountains 37 years ago", said Mr Inciarte, referring to an agreement they made that anyone who died would allow themselves to be eaten.

The campaign seeks to double the number of registered organ donors in Uruguay by late 2010.

After Uruguay "we will extend it to other countries", Mr Inciarte said. "First Argentina, where the accident took place; then Chile, where we were rescued from; and then we will continue north."

On October 13, 1972 a Uruguayan Air Force plane bound for Chile with 45 people aboard, including members of a rugby team, crashed in the high Andes.

Twelve people died in the crash and 17 others died over the next days due to injuries and avalanches. On the tenth day the survivors heard on the radio that rescue operations had been suspended, prompting their pact.

The men's plight was chronicled in a best-selling book Alive and a Hollywood film of the same name.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2009, 07:43:02 PM »
The book was really good....
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2009, 08:19:17 PM »
The movie was pretty good too.  Especially at the end when they show some actual footage from that event.
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« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 08:23:05 AM »
Didn't the survivors eat the kidneys of their dead friends?  :o
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« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 08:29:05 AM »

Yes, that's the connection - reusing spare parts from deceased friends....
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« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2009, 08:30:09 AM »
Quote from: okarol on October 05, 2009, 08:29:05 AM

Yes, that's the connection - reusing spare parts from deceased friends....

"Don't eat it, donate it!"    :o
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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 09:09:16 AM »
Quote from: Zach on October 05, 2009, 08:30:09 AM
Quote from: okarol on October 05, 2009, 08:29:05 AM

Yes, that's the connection - reusing spare parts from deceased friends....

"Don't eat it, donate it!"    :o

Oh boy! A new bumper sticker!!  :rofl;
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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