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A few years ago such things as lung and heart transplants were the 'in' thing, supposedly giving people an extra 10 years of life, (I imagine at great expense with all the drugs needed for preventing rejection).

If 10 years ago they had just spent a small percentage of that trying to keep him fit instead of ignoring his condition, he would probably have had another 10 years at least to pay towards 'foreign aid'.