I read in the Sunday Times a very intriguing article about heart transplants causing recipients to take on personalities of the donors.
Creepy but intriguing.
So I read on about cases in the U.S. and (London?) whereby according to reports, that was what happened to the recipients. One guy committed suicide the same way the donor did. A 40 plus lady realized that her tastes had changed to those of a teenager after she received a heart from an 18 year old girl. Yet another who left his own wife for his donor's wife because he felt like he had "known her for a long time" when he first set his eyes on her and even started drinking a particular brand of beer (that the donor used to drink) when in the past, he didn't drink beer.
It's kind of morbid don't you think so? Yet, how much of this can be believed? Local doctors attribute these changes to psychological influences (as with all other things...) citing scientific explanations that a heart contains DNA of the original owner but unlike a brain, it doesn't process thoughts, etc. Along the line... That they could be behaving that way due to guilt or gratitude or just a natural filling in of the shoes of the donors. Makes sense though...
And I was thinking that in the case of the guy who left his wife for the donor's wife and even married the latter, the former wife probably wished that he had died instead of her having to nurse him back to health only to have him running into the arms of the donor's wife.
Such a twist. A bit funny though.
Cruel but funny.
Serendipity believed today at 10:24 PM
