7 heart transplants. Seven Lives of David Rockefeller

On March 20, 2017, David Rockefeller, the world's oldest billionaire and record holder for the number of heart transplants, died.

Rockefeller underwent his first transplant in 1976 after a car accident that provoked a heart attack.

Then he was 61 years old. Heart transplants were not often performed at that time, and the risk that someone else's heart would not take root in an elderly patient was great. However, everything went well, and a new heart began to beat in the billionaire's chest. And a week later, according to eyewitnesses, he already went out for a morning run.

The main problem with transplantation is the rejection of the organ by the immune system. As with any transplant, the patient has to take drugs that suppress the immune system. Today, the life expectancy of people after a heart transplant is estimated at more than 10 years.

Over the next 40 years, Rockefeller, according to media estimates, underwent six more operations.

The news about one of the latest operations spread through the media in 2015 - they wrote that Rockefeller had a sixth heart transplanted. The original source of the fake news was a publication publishing fictitious notes.

Rockefeller received his last heart quite recently, at the end of 2016.

The previous one stopped functioning just a week after the doctors warned the billionaire about the wear of the organ.

Rockefeller did not talk too much about his operations. There are no details about them either in memoirs or in the press. This is not surprising, given the negative public reaction to reports of the very fact of the operation - people around the world expressed strong doubts that Rockefeller received new hearts in the queue for transplantation, and accused him of depriving some of the other patients of the opportunity to survive. . Given the shortage of donor hearts, even repeated transplants are quite rare.

However, the transplantologists who worked with the billionaire denied the connection between wealth and the organs received.

In addition to hearts, Rockefeller has had two kidney transplants, in 1998 and 2004. It is possible that the need for transplantation led to the use of immunosuppressants that disrupt the functioning of the kidneys.

David Rockefeller was the grandson of John, the first dollar billionaire in history. He was the first of his kind to live to be 100 years old. Over the years, he managed to visit the secretary of the mayor of New York, the military, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the president of the bank, met with world leaders. Rockefeller donated about a billion dollars to various institutions, including $100 million, where he studied.

Due to his membership in the Bilderberg Club, which included powerful politicians, bankers and businessmen, conspiracy theorists accused Rockefeller of involvement in the "world government".

Rockefeller's cause of death, according to a family spokesman, was cardiac arrest. The billionaire died quietly in his sleep in his own bed.

David Rockefeller was known not only as a billionaire and a member of the "world government", but also as a man who underwent seven heart transplants. The last one stopped on March 20, 2017.

On March 20, 2017, David Rockefeller died - the oldest billionaire in the world and the record holder for the number of heart transplants.

Rockefeller underwent his first transplant in 1976 after a car accident that provoked a heart attack.

Over the next 40 years, Rockefeller, according to media estimates, underwent six more operations.

Rockefeller received his last heart quite recently, at the end of 2016.

The previous one stopped functioning just a week after the doctors warned the billionaire about the wear of the organ.

However, the transplantologists who worked with the billionaire denied the connection between Rockefeller's wealth and the organs received.

David Rockefeller was the grandson of John Rockefeller, the first dollar billionaire in history. He was the first of his kind to live to be 100 years old. Over the years, he managed to visit the secretary of the mayor of New York, the military, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the president of the bank, met with world leaders. Rockefeller donated about a billion dollars to various institutions, including $100 million to Harvard University, where he studied.

Due to his membership in the Bilderberg Club, which included powerful politicians, bankers and businessmen, conspiracy theorists accused Rockefeller of involvement in the "world government".

Rockefeller's cause of death, according to a family spokesman, was cardiac arrest. The billionaire died quietly in his sleep in his own bed.

In the 102nd year, the symbol of global capitalism quietly died. In a dream. But this news became a loud world sensation.

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"CYBORG - MAN-EATER"

A number of Russian media, bloggers, experts hastened to declare the deceased a world record holder for ... organ transplants. Say, as many as seven times he changed his heart, twice - the kidneys! Cyborg…

They say something like this: the first heart transplant was done back in 1976, after a car accident. The operation lasted a whole day. A week later, David was jogging. The sixth operation on a VIP patient was performed by a team of private surgeons shortly before Rockefeller's centenary at his family estate Pocantico Hills, New York. After 36 hours, the billionaire was already answering questions from reporters. He admitted that he wants to live 200 years. “Every time I get a new heart, it's like a breath of life. I feel a charge of energy and life!” - the American site quoted the titled patient. In passing, he reported on kidney replacements in 1998 and 2004.

This site sensation with a tricky name about six transplants in the spring of 2015 was instantly reprinted by many of our media and Internet resources. Some admired Western medicine, others threw thunder and lightning at the bloodthirsty shark of capitalism, globalism, which always finds a heart donor without a queue. Dooming others in need to death. Pure cannibal! This is what it means to be a billionaire! Such transplantology is inaccessible to a simple person!

And none of his colleagues asked the obvious question: if Rockefeller held a press conference after the operation, why did the stunning news appear only on a cheap overseas news site specializing in fakes, and serious Western publications, news agencies did not say a word about the triumph of medicine? The fact that this is a fake can be “split” in 5 seconds.

In September 2016, a “sensation” about the seventh replacement of the “motor” appeared on a completely anonymous site. They say that Rockefeller goes against nature and established rules, becoming at 101 the record holder for a heart transplant.

These fakes are now being procrastinated by commentators. Although in the large obituary article about the death of Rockefeller, which our media referred to, there is not a word about the transplant record of the deceased.

But why did he live so long, you ask?

Firstly, a hundred years is not such a world record now. Secondly, the rich generally live longer than the poor. They have access to a healthy diet, the achievements of modern medicine. In David's particular case, I think genes played an important role - heredity.

His great-grandfather William Rockefeller (1810-1906) died at 96. For the 19th century, you see, a very long time. Grandfather, the legendary founder of the financial and industrial dynasty John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), only a month and a half did not live to be 98. He always preached a healthy lifestyle, a complete rejection of alcohol, coffee, and tobacco. Father - John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874 -1960) - 86. David himself did not reach 102 years for two months and three weeks.

But his older brother, former US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller let us down. He died at 70. As the biography says, during a violent sexual intercourse with a certain pullet Megan Marshak. Well, excesses shorten the lives of both the poor and the rich ... However, there is no documentary evidence of fatal sex. Perhaps this is a “duck” that has flown to us from the last century.

GRANDFATHER'S LEGACY

Founded the famous dynasty, which has become a symbol of American wealth, John Davison Rockefeller. The first dollar billionaire in the history of mankind. John died in 1937 leaving $1.4 billion. According to experts, in 2010 this fortune would equal $336 billion.

Oil brought fabulous wealth to grandfather. By the end of the 19th century, his "Standard Oil" monopolized the extraction of "black gold" in the United States. After the adoption of the antitrust law, John broke Standard Oil into 34 companies, retaining a controlling stake in each. And continued to grow rich. ExxonMobil, the world's largest public oil company, is a fragment of that Rockefeller empire. Like Chevron, other reputable firms.

In addition to the oil industry, grandfather had several dozen railway, steamship, steel companies, real estate firms, and nine banks. And he also very successfully married his only son, John Jr., to the daughter of influential Senator Nelson Aldrich. This marriage in the United States was called the greatest union of capital and politics. When later Rockefeller, Morgan and a number of other major financiers started to create the US Federal Reserve System (a group of private banks that act as the state Central Bank), it was Aldrich who cunningly "broke" the idea in the Senate. So the Family got access to the dollar printing press.

David was born on June 12, 1915. He was the youngest of six children of John Rockefeller and Abby Aldrich. He graduated from Harvard and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. After receiving a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, in 1940 he began working as a secretary to the mayor of New York. To learn the basics of political cuisine from the inside. In 1942 he went to military service. Private. And rose to the rank of captain of intelligence. After the war, he joined the family's Chase Manhattan Bank. Just assistant manager of the foreign department. Although he could immediately become a big boss. But he honestly went through all the stages of a financial career. And only in 1961 he headed the board of the bank. Made it one of the largest in the world. And in 1981 he resigned. 66 years! The charter of the bank did not allow him to remain in a leadership position. However, David remained chairman of the Bank's International Advisory Committee. After another merger, the bank is now called "J. P. Morgan Chase. One of the leading in the world, in the top ten.

PUPPETER - "Rogue"

On the day of David's death, Forbes published another ranking of the richest people in the world. Rockefeller took only 581st place in it: $ 3.3 billion. Yes, he is a beggar compared to Gates, Buffett, other Russian oligarchs ...

Don't jump to conclusions, he says. Andrey FURSOV, Director of the Institute for System-Strategic Analysis. - Rockefellers first of all should be considered as a clan. Experts believe that their combined fortune, according to the most conservative estimates, is more than 2 trillion. The Rothschild family has a trillion more. But no one knows for sure. Not for this, these Families have been making fortunes for centuries to shine. And the ratings of billionaires - so, to the public.

The hero of the novel All the King's Men, politician Willie Stark, not without reason said: “Dollars are good up to a certain limit. Further, only power makes sense!

In this regard, David Rockefeller is not an ordinary billionaire, a banker. He led one of the few family clans that have the opportunity, if not to control the world process, then to direct it. One of the owners of History. What can not be said about Gates, Zuckerberg, Abramovich ...

David was considered an influential ideologist of globalism, neo-conservatism. He stood at the origins of the famous Bilderberg club of the Western elite, which is credited with the functions of a secret world government. He was a member of the "committee of managers" of the Club, for decades, as long as his health allowed, he participated in meetings. He headed the influential "Council on Foreign Relations" in the United States, created the "Trilateral Commission" of representatives of North America, Western Europe, Japan on peace and prosperity, became its first president.

The family has a special place in the world's ruling elite for another reason. Even John Rockefeller Sr. did a lot of charity work, founded the Chicago and Rockefeller universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, donated large sums to science and medicine. Evil tongues said that this was how he avoided taxes, at the same time creating a positive image of a philanthropist against the backdrop of high-profile business scandals. The son and grandchildren continued the tradition. David alone has donated over a billion dollars to charity. But it happened so, the Family, through nominal funds, increasingly began to control important research in medicine and genetics. Especially - related to human behavior, fertility, vaccinations. This is no coincidence. The philanthropist David, the father of six, was a proponent of worldwide birth control. They say that there are not enough resources for all. With the money of the Rockefellers, the Club of Rome was founded, which promoted the policy of reducing the population of the Earth.

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE?

So the New York Times, in an extensive obituary, focuses not on the personal billions of the deceased, but on his role in the world, which cannot be defined by any corporate title. Rockefeller's influence was felt in Washington and other capitals, in the corridors of government, in art museums, in great universities and public schools. Everywhere he was received with honors worthy of the head of state.

The Rockefellers came to Russia under Stalin: they credited the first Soviet five-year plans and industrialization with great profit. There is even a version of conspiracy theorists why Stalin staged his high-profile repressions precisely in the 37th. Immediately after the death of John Rockefeller Sr. that year. Say, this death untied the hands of the leader. Prior to that, he was forced to comply with certain agreements with the billionaire about the humanity of the Kremlin, and restrained his bloodthirstiness. Indeed, John died on May 23, and in the summer the Great Terror began. On June 11, Tukhachevsky and seven other top military leaders of the USSR were sentenced to death. A start was given to mass purges in the Red Army. On June 28, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a decision on capital punishment for kulaks. Execution "troikas" are being set up all over the country. July 31 - Order of the NKVD No. 00447 "On the operation to repress former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements", approved by the Politburo. The system of Gulag camps is expanding...

David Rockefeller personally paved the way to Moscow. He met with Khrushchev, Prime Minister Kosygin, perestroika leader Gorbachev ... In the spring of 1992, Mikhail Sergeevich paid the billionaire a return visit, negotiated with David in New York for financial assistance of 75 million dollars to organize a global fund and "an American-style presidential library." Although Gorbachev was no longer president. The USSR collapsed. And why such a kush?

In 2003, David presented his memoirs in the Russian capital. And I talked to Luzhkov. But I haven't seen Putin. However, the patriarch of American foreign policy, Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State, met with the Russian President more than a dozen times. Faithful man of David. He began his career in the 50s just at the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation (where he is now a member of the board). And since then, closely associated with the clan. He was an adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, when he went to the White House. Already after Trump's victory, Henry said that he was ready to go to the new president and give advice on how to improve relations with Russia. Kissinger also owns the catchphrase: “To understand Putin, one must read Dostoevsky, and not “Mein Kampf!”

By the way, last year Kissinger was elected a Russian academician!

Curious fact. Rex Tillerson became Secretary of State under Trump. Former CEO of Exxon Mobil, where Rockefeller shares still remain.

WHO WILL LEAD THE CLAN?

David was going to hand over the business to his youngest son, Richard, who managed the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. But Friday, June 13, 2014 was truly fatal for the Family. The day before, Richard celebrated his father's 99th birthday at the family estate. In the morning, he sat at the helm of a single-engine Piper Meridian to return home. The plane took off into the air, caught on trees and crashed, crumbling into many pieces. Did the fateful number for the West act, coupled with the mystical new moon, the intrigues of Rothschild rivals, or dense fog? The death of his son crippled the health of David Rockefeller.

The patriarch left a son and four daughters.

David Rockefeller Jr. 75 years old. Vice President of Rockefeller Family And Associates, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Financial Services, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation Trust.

Abby Rockefeller, 74. In her youth she was a rebel, a Marxist, a feminist.

Neva Rockefeller Goodwin 7 3. Economist, philanthropist, director of the Global Development And Environment Institute.

Peggy Dyulaney, 70. Founder of the Synergos Institute, member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Eileen Rockefeller Groweld, 65. Founder of the Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors Foundation.

Perhaps the leadership of the clan will pass to one of the ten grandchildren and granddaughters, historian Andrei Fursov believes. However, reports that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the grandson of David Rockefeller are also fake, as are the “seven transplanted hearts” of the patriarch. Utka was launched back in 2012 from an Australian anonymous website. And since then, it periodically pops up on the Web.

BY THE WAY

Initially, the clan was led by David's older brother Nelson Rockefeller, former governor of New York, US vice president under Ford.

Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller patronized the young politician Bill Clinton. There were persistent rumors that Bill was his illegitimate son. Later, Clinton himself became the governor of this state. From there he went to the presidency of the United States.

Hillary Clinton started her career with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation. Thanks to him, the young lawyer got into a solid commission on the Watergate scandal, she was noticed ...

FULL OF HEART

DAVID ROCKEFELLER: "I PLEASE GUILTY AND I AM PROUD!"

“For more than a century, ideological extremists at all ends of the political spectrum have been enthusiastically (…) trying to blame the Rockefeller family for the all-encompassing menacing influence they claim we have on American political and economic institutions. Some even believe that we are part of a secret political group working against the interests of the United States and characterize my family and me as "internationalists" who have colluded with other groups around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world. , if you like. If that's the charge, then I plead guilty and I'm proud of it."

From Memoirs, 2002

TO THE POINT

Five principles of David Rockefeller: How to become rich and live to 100 years

The oldest representative of the oldest financial dynasty has died

David Rockefeller died at the age of 101 and with a fortune of $3.3 billion. He was considered the oldest member of the Forbes list, but inherited his capital from his grandfather, John. It was he who laid the foundation for the famous dynasty, because he became known as the first dollar billionaire.

The case history of 101-year-old billionaire David Rockefeller, who died on Monday, March 21, became a medical legend during the life of the world-famous patient. He was transplanted seven times with a donor heart and twice with kidneys. This is a world record, no one in the world has had so many heart transplants.

David Rockefeller. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Rockefeller survived his first heart transplant in 1976 at the age of 62. He received his last transplant in August 2016. A heart transplant for such an old patient has no analogues - doctors impose strict age restrictions on people standing in line for an organ transplant.

As cardiac surgeon Vladimir Khoroshev told Life, Rockefeller received his first new heart due to cardiomyopathy, this disease rendered the heart muscle unusable. At that time, an artificial heart had not yet been invented, so there was only a transplant option, the doctor notes.

Like all organ transplant patients, David Rockefeller took immune-suppressing drugs to prevent his body from rejecting the donor heart. However, the cardiac surgeon notes, all subsequent transplants to Rockefeller were done due to the fact that his body rejected a new donor heart and it stopped working.

Obviously, such practically unlimited access to donor organs is not available to ordinary people (usually, a donor heart is taken from dead people). In addition, re-transplantation itself is an extremely expensive operation, costing millions of dollars.

According to Alexei Zhao, vice president of the Interregional Public Organization of the Community of Transplantologists, Rockefeller's seven heart transplants are truly a unique case. If it were not for the big name and financial power of the patient, the experts would hardly have agreed to transplant the organ at such a venerable age.

The heart itself as a donor organ is priceless and cannot be bought. Sometimes people die without waiting for their donor organ for transplantation. One can only guess how much the rules of this queue for a donor heart extended to Rockefeller, but it is clear that the famous name and money helped him speed up this process as much as seven times.

A fair queue for a donor organ is a very serious issue, says Alexey Zhao. In case of organ deficiency, it is customary to choose the most optimal recipient who will live longer. When a person is 90 years old and has already had several transplants, it is inappropriate to have another transplant both from a social and cost point of view. Such a heart could save someone's younger life, the doctor noted.

Rockefeller billionaire, Rockefeller cyborg and Rockefeller and the worldwide conspiracy theory - what was the world media talking about while one of the most influential people in the world was alive? Read how many times Rockefeller's heart was transplanted?

How many times has Rockefeller had a heart transplant?

David Rockefeller, billionaire and record holder for life expectancy, died on March 21, 2017 at the age of 101. The history of the illness of one of the most influential people began in 1976 - Rockefeller got into a car accident, which led to serious consequences: a heart attack. At the time of the accident, David Rockefeller was 61 years old. In those ill-fated times for surgery, heart transplants were not performed - the first successful transplant took place only 30 years ago in the USSR. The risk that the new heart would take root without consequences was very high. Why? Firstly, the obvious complexity of the operation itself, secondly, the risk after rehabilitation, thirdly, the possibility of rejection by the immune system, and fourthly, innovative drugs that you need to take to maintain your health after surgery have not been fully tested.

40 years of operations and costly transplants

The next 40 years after the first heart transplant, David Rockefeller was not easy: systemic rejections each time caused the need for a new operation. Rockefeller had a heart transplant 6 times! The last heart Rockefeller received was in 2016, a year before his death.

Expenses: 3 billion and 300 million dollars;
Number of operations: 6 heart transplants;
Charitable contributions to research: 1 billion US dollars;

Rockefeller on heart transplants

After the first transplant procedure– 1976 after a car accident – Rockefeller was already out for a run. For a newly recovered person, such physical activity, especially running, which activates the work of the cardiovascular system, is risky. Rockefeller himself on heart transplants: « I feel even more energized than before. A new heart breathes life into me, makes me more alive. Rockefeller repeated similar words at the age of 101, answering the question of whether he liked his existence: “I live an ordinary life: I value and raise children, communicate with good people, love what surrounds me.”

Despite the cost of the operation, Rockefeller could well afford to carry out 6 heart transplants. Of course, the body does not always take into account what our mind desires, so the billionaire was lucky that the physical shell "accepted" the idea of life extension. Perhaps Rockefeller pointed to a new way of eternal life - a kind of regeneration, by replacing organs. It is not for nothing that a lot of films have appeared in the filmography that promote the idea of \u200b\u200b"cultivating clones for slaughter" like the movie "Island". Let's put philosophical considerations aside.

What is really worth paying attention to is David Rockefeller's position: “In my life I managed to earn a lot of money, but I gave away almost everything I had. What's the point of having something if you can't share it?" . A man with 6 hearts perfectly understood the meaning of life. Constant cash inflows to the field of transplantology and the practice of surgeons have helped to develop clearer principles for conducting operations and the rehabilitation period, so the billionaire should be thanked for the significant contribution of his money and body to the development of science.

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