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Asked by islaa to Audra, Fiona, Justin on 23 Mar 2012.
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Justin Lawley answered on 23 Mar 2012:
I suppose it depends on the term live. As long as you are in hospital on a special machine that pumps the blood around your body you are still alive but you would be asleep. It is also possible to transplant another persons heart into your body and even scientist have created the first fully functioning plastic heart. Although, it is nowhere near as good as the one you have and you have to go back every couple of years to have it replaced i think.
So you aren’t really live without a heart but you can live if you have a spare and an awesome surgeon to fit it!!!!!!!!
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Fiona Hatch answered on 23 Mar 2012:
I hate to disagree with Justin but sometimes this happens between scientists.
No one could live without a heart. Even in hospital the heart is the most difficult organ (along with the liver) that the hospital can do nothing about. There is no machine that can pump the blood for you. They can operate on your current heart and try to get it working, they could add tubes to your heart and add pumps that assist it. But you cannot live without having your own heart for them to do something with.
As Justin said though, you could get a heart transplant if yours no longer worked, but this is very difficult because it is rare to get an organ donor that gives you a heart.
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indianchicken commented on :
I don’t think you can live without a heart. You need your heart for the most important thing in your body. And that’s the Blood circle-lation. The blood circle-lation keeps you alive. If you didn’t have a heart you will have no blood. And you will become very week. and i mean VERY week!.