TED Community » Vasilios Nikolaidis

Location:: Greece, Athens, Greece
Current role:: Business Consultant, Coach & Mentor
Gender:: Male
Areas of expertise:: Networking & Marketing, Networking & bringing people together, Networking & Security, Brain / behavior, insight and innovation, Inspiration, Goal Achieving, Dream Fulfillment and confidence

I am:: Athlete, Brainstormer, Business leader, Concerned citizen, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Investor, Life mentor, Public servant

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A reply on Conversation: If your cells were used to grow an organ in the lab, is it still "your" organ?

Oct 3 2011: Hi Nina, recently I had an expeirience of a quadrple bypass surgery and as you know the transpalnted vasculars were from my own body but I had to have the economic wealth to get in the OR . Unfortunately the med induastry is (at least in Greece) philosophically positioned "If you HAVE, you will LIVE" but on the other side and to answer to your question (allways humbly and with respect) we don;t "own" none of our cells, Ibelieve that we have borrowed them from the universe and we have the obligation to treat them well and improve them so when we have to borrow them to the next generations they must be improved so scientists can make them better and suffering one day will become less and less for human beings.
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A comment on Conversation: If your cells were used to grow an organ in the lab, is it still "your" organ?

Oct 3 2011: I humbly believe that it doesn't really matter if you "own" the created organ or not, because you never did own it. In the begining it was "yours" after your fathers "donation" to society "thru" your mother. I understand that maybe the whole issue is about the industrial organs that can be created at the laboratories so its just a another product who will become "mine" if I can afford it.