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Edward Schumaker
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Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…