22 Sep 2008, 5:07 am
'Free hugs guy' to donate kidney to stranger
Juan Mann: 'doesn't need' second kidney. Photo: AAP
Juan Mann, who came to worldwide attention in 2004 after a video of him dispensing free hugs in Sydney's central business district appeared on YouTube, expects to undergo surgery next year.
"I am young, I am fit, I am healthy, I have two kidneys," the 26-year-old, who does not use his real name, has told the Sun-Herald.
"I don't really drink. I don't need that second one and someone will be able to get out of hospital."
He will face psychiatric and physical tests in hospital before he can make the donation, the process of which will be filmed and later broadcast online, the paper said.
"I will never meet the (recipient); I will never know if the transplant is a success or a failure; I will never know if my kidney kills the person," Mann said.
"Apparently once you give your kidney you will never feel whole.
"[But] I'll get a cool scar and apparently chicks dig scars."
Mann's MySpace and YouTube sites confirmed the report.
Mann, who spends about one day a week holding a 'FREE HUGS' sign above his head in Sydney's Pitt Street Mall, has inspired free hugs movements around the world.
- AFP/ABC
Being generous is one thing, but this is something else entirely... I can't decide whether the guy is being heroic or suicidal...
22 Sep 2008, 6:17 am
It's entirely possible for a human to live with one kidney. Can you imagine how many people worldwide, at this very moment, are in desperate need of a kidney? I'd say he's a would-be hero with a touch of looniness. Giving away a piece of yourself in this way could literally save a life, repair a family, inspire thousands, who knows?
I can't donate any of my vital organs since I'm on so much pharma drugs every day. I don't know if I could make a blood donation, either. At least until after I'm dead, I'll need my brain, liver, lungs, kidneys, and heart. I don't know what I'd do without my brain, liver, lungs, kidneys, and heart.
I hope no one steals them.
22 Sep 2008, 4:06 pm
sounds good to me 
23 Sep 2008, 1:19 pm
23 Sep 2008, 9:04 pm
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