The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said.
The finished show, which will premiere in September, is supposed to be part of the 1,250th anniversary’s cultural programming.“It was not meant to be a spoof at all,” bodytalk cofounder Rolf Baumgart said in an email to The Associated Press. “As Westphalia is a rural dominated region with a turbulent history our research was focused on that.”
The spectacle also prompted an online petition — signed by more than 22,000 people by Friday afternoon — that asks Paderborn Archbishop Udo Bentz for a personal apology, as well as penance. The signers also want him to reconsecrate the cathedral after it was “desecrated by this performance.”In a statement posted online to the cathedral’s website more than a week after the performance, the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the church’s leadership said that the content of the performance wasn’t known to the organizers or the venue.The cathedral, the statement said, is often host to cultural events and has begun an internal review. They also promised to more carefully vet proposed events in the future.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment on Friday.Philipp Jenne contributed to this report from Vienna.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after thehis Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days. Faucette died Monday.