{"id":3684,"date":"2021-11-09T09:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:38:09","slug":"she-died-with-long-covid-should-her-organs-have-been-donated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/11\/09\/she-died-with-long-covid-should-her-organs-have-been-donated\/","title":{"rendered":"She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3684\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;Covid-19 ravaged Heidi Ferrer\u2019s body and soul for over a year, and in May the \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d screenwriter killed herself in Los Angeles. She had lost all hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sorry,\u201d she said in a goodbye video to her husband and son. \u201cI would never do this if I was well. Please understand. Please forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her husband, Nick Guthe, a writer and director, wanted to donate her body to science. But the hospital said it was not his decision to make because Ms. Ferrer, 50, had signed up to be an organ donor. So specialists recovered several organs from the body before disconnecting her from a ventilator.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read full story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/07\/health\/covid-organ-transplants.html?fbclid=IwAR0eMFUjvqSgjAmSj-mPnI307L28A_0c0WoX_pEdHMsrArGYsAjHvK5qGnc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3684\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading &#8220;Covid-19 ravaged Heidi Ferrer\u2019s body and soul for over a year, and in May the \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d screenwriter killed herself in Los Angeles. She had lost all hope. \u201cI\u2019m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/11\/09\/she-died-with-long-covid-should-her-organs-have-been-donated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;She Died With Long Covid. 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