Young mother dies of post-liver transplant complications in Singapore

Why does no-one mention that she was addicted to drugs as a child by due to mistreatment by a doctor?

She was just an addict  .. well she got to pay her price, why should we pay for her stupidity .

I was not in favour of Claire receiving a 2nd organ transplant, but I changed my mind after seeing her family on television. We all make mistakes in our lives and we are all worthy of compassion. I truly believe that Claire was trying very hard to get her life back on track. I hope her family are able to move on from this. They seem like good people.

She did not deserve a second chance. I have a 5 year old little boy who needs a liver transplant we have just had news that he may  go on the waiting list now. Claire was given the chance once before and then blew it with drugs why why why did the goverment give her the money and now us as tax payers will have to pay it back. Does this mean the goverment is going to give everyone the money to do live liver transplant ???

Please explaine !!!!!!!!!

Whilst I mourn for the poor girl and her beloved family - her two
boys, which she left behind. The whole saga has been a beat up by the media; orchestrated by the Perth Medical Board which went to great length to donate $258,000 of taxpayer's money for her donor survival. Puzzling, is the fact, she flew to Singapore, with a retinue of Family and hanger-on's, for the 8 hr operation ? Why, not St Vincent's in Sydney, or Prince Charles in Brisbane ? They have the World's best surgeons and ICQ after care ? Her survival chances would have been greatly enhanced with a superior medical team, not to mention the cost which would have been 1/5. Moreover, Kudos for an Ozzie Medical team, and importantly, a very much alive patient. The whole fiasco, could have been avoided, if it was Medically handled instead of Politicized, by a bunch of self-serving Bureaucrats, more intent on furthering their careers, than with an end view of a sorry, self addicted,young mother who fought for her Life, gambled, and lost. May she rest in eternal Peace. Hope this serves as a reminder, to those who gamble with designer drugs, or resort to a dangerous Life style, which inevitably spirals out of control ?

I've worked with the team that did Claire's first transplant - although I wasn't involved in hers - and I sure resented her after her post-transplant drug use, for the selfish disregard of all the effort and expense of others she blatantly squandered - including the donor and the chance of another receiving it. As a youth I partied - but stopped when I had a kid - because I had responsibilities and took them seriously. It's hard not to be judgemental about this. After I saw a picture of Claire's grieving family, I actually shed a tear (much to my surprise). And resented Claire just that bit more. It may sound harsh, and my work in health may have desensitised me. But while I'm touched by the families plight - and her passing is all the more moving because her kids have lost their mum - I'm glad the "story" has come to an end. Claire made her bed. And so shall she lay in it. For eternity.

Good. There is a god.  This was brought on herself by herself, and I don't think tax payers should pay for her stupidity.

Even though the human race has come this far, we still have not learned that there is really no such thing as fairness and justice in life. the sooner we learn and accept this, only then will we know the principle of cause and effect.

At least the money was spent on the attempt to save a human life, rather than a dog or a cat or something.

I guess her role in the grand scheme of things was to serve as a warning to others.

The Govt better get their money back off the family. Just coz she's dead doesn't mean the tax payers have to foot the bill, which should not even have been loaned in the first place. There are so many more deserving people than a drug addict who goes and cries on Tv. Come off it.

For all you sobbing intellectuals standing up for poor Claire, get a grip.  She chose her path, and unfortunately screwed not only herself but someone else out of a liver and a chance to live along the way.  Her functional, non-drug damaged organs should be harvested and put on e.bay.  Stupid Girl

Reading this thread I am struck by how much anger and contempt and lack of compassion there is for this woman. Addiction is multi-faceted and whatever drove her to use drugs in the first place obviously had a much stronger hold on her than was apparent to her treating physicians. I don't know her - or much about her circumstances - but the one thing I have realised in the last few years is that we are all damaged in some way and a society that lacks compassion is one headed for spiritual extinction. Debate the merits of the use of tax-payers funding for something that was not medically warranted by all means but leave her family to grieve in peace please. Let's hope her kids don't take the same path of their mother in due course ...

Better than spending it on the usual things our government does- $200,000 toilet seats (i.e. travel for spouses)and so on. Claire wanted to die when the first liver was failing, but her family encouraged her to live for her kids. I feel sorry for her family, they fought for her like any loving parents would (and now they have tripe to listen to from unhappy know it alls). She hated herself more than any of you "perfect people" who are celebrating her death could ever- live your own lives and stop being so bitter. I am thinking of her kids and hope they don't blame themselves as kids do.

Dear Clair, "You tried we cried"

None of us are perfect!  

As sad as the story is, the politician had no right to spend tax payer's money that way. It should come out of his pocket if the family doesn't pay it back. How many starving or homeless people could have that money helped with this money?

I'm just wondering why some people have "special circumstances" and others do not. My mother died 4 years ago from liver failure, and there was no $250,000 offer from anybody for a transplant. My mum was an alcoholic. This act of quot;generosity" seems extremely offensive to me. Sure somebody needed it, but why does the government get to pick and choose the candidates when they are spending everybody's money and not their own.

Where's my $250,000 interest free loan?  If the Health Miniter is going to unconstitutionally hand out loans, his job is to the state not to individual persons, then why stop with heroin girl?  Hell I know plenty of people who need heart transplants, where is there money?  This couldn't have been a bs move by the HM in order to "look good" in front of the people by helping out a bogan with a heroin adiction.  If this money isn't paid back the HM should not only be sacked but sued for the amount loaned as the loan itself was unconstitutional!

If you have only nasty things to say try keeping it to your self and make the world a better place. "Where there is life there is always hope"

What a mess up and a sad story.But the fact remains about the loan.Why couldn't Kim Haines and Colin Barnett come up with the money from their pockets rather than using the taxpayers money willy nilly. They are only doing for their own gains. I never voted for them and I never will.