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Tamar Ashkenazi, Ph.D., national coordinator of Israel’s national transplant system,
discusses the history of transplants in Israel, how transplant awareness has grown and how the definition of death as brain death has allowed more people to become donors. Israel has adopted the Spanish model of donation, wherein every hospital has a transplant coordinator who helps donor families, through the difficult decision to donate organs.

Dr. Askenazi also broke some news on “Heart to Heart with Michael,” announcing that in Israel, there is no longer an age cap on donors or recipients. Recently, four donors over eighty years old donated organs to elder recipients, showing the validity of the system and offering hope to virtually anyone who needs a transplant.

She is also the author of “Mourning, the Day After Loss” a book designed to help families through the stages of grief. https://www.amazon.com/Mourning-Insights-Practical-Advice-Coping-ebook/dp/B01FUJSPAM (Please use the AmazonSmile program and choose Hearts Unite the Globe when making Amazon purchases to provide a small donation to our nonprofit organization.)

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In this episode, our guest Lynne Machado discusses a little-known law in Texas that forbids hospitals from disconnecting life support from a patient who is pregnant. Lynne’s daughter, Marlise, died in 2013 while she was fourteen weeks pregnant. She was, at the time, declared brain dead. This little-known law was invoked and, against the wishes of her family; and those of Marlise as stated in her DNR, Marlise was put on life support.

The family, showing that she was no longer a patient for having met the legal definition of death, went to court to have their daughter removed from life support. Join us for this difficult, yet fascinating story which has now become the subject of a documentary film, “62 Days.”

62 Days can be streamed at http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/reel-south-62-days until July 16, 2018.

There will also be viewings in:
•Dallas: Monday, July 23rd 2018, Alamo Drafthouse- Cedars
•Houston: Tuesday, July 24th 2018, Rice Media Center
•Austin: Thursday, July 26th 2018, Alamo Drafthouse – Mueller
Additional viewings at film festivals are tentatively scheduled for Fall 2018.

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