A man found bleeding early Saturday on a sidewalk near Mission Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head left a suicide note asking the hospital to harvest his organs, police said.Strange coincidence.
Charles Kilduff, 48, of Las Vegas was found at 2:30 a.m. by a person walking to the hospital's parking lot. That person contacted hospital personnel who came out and examined the man, hospital spokeswoman Paula Serios said. Kilduff was taken into the emergency room and was pronounced dead on arrival, she said.
"He left a note that asked the hospital to harvest his organs," sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.
A handgun was found near Kilduff's body.
The hospital was unable to harvest any organs, Serios said. She declined to say why.
Bryan Stewart, a spokesman from OneLegacy, a nonprofit organ donation group that serves the Southern California area, said his organization would have been contacted if the organs had been viable.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Life Imitates Desperate Housewives
A couple of weeks ago a character on Desperate Housewives walked into a hospital with a note requesting her kidney be given to another character, and then shot herself. Over the weekend that scene repeated itself in Mission Viejo:
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Weird! What's funny is my daughter was a background extra in the scene where the Housewives are told about the character shooting herself. She's sitting in the hospital lobby right behind them. Said it was *very* hard not to laugh at the absurd plot. Little did we know someone would do it in real life!
Best wishes,
Laura
I've heard that if the heart stops beating, they can't harvest the organs, at least nothing more than corneas. That's why they keep terminal patients on life support: to keep the blood flowing and such...
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