Pig Kidneys Transplanted into Brain-Dead Man as Patients Face Organ Shortages

This story has been submitted many times, and discussed a few:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The main discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942200

That's old enough that it's no longer possible to comment there, so if you have something to add, this would be the place.

It's perhaps also eclipsed by the recent transplanting of a pig's heart into a live human patient. The discussion of that is primarily here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882912