Category: My Sister’s Keeper

“My Sister’s Keeper” is a drama film indicating a story about two sisters: Kate who is battling cancer and the other, Anna, who is a perfect donor to keep her sister alive. In the story, Kate Fitzgerald, the elder sister, is diagnosed of having acute promyelocytic leukaemia. In order to save their children, the parents…

To complete the genetics connection to society project, I choose to watch My Sisters Keeper directed by Nick Cassavetes. The film revolves around a family of five, Sarah (mother), Brain (father), Jesse (older son), Kate (daughter)and Anna (daughter). We see stories of families being built by planning for babies, a coincidence or even accidents. Jesse…

I want you to close your eyes, and tell me. Tell me- how you would feel. How WOULD you feel? If you learned that the only reason you were born was to save the life of another. That you ARE- and always will be- the second choice. That your parents have, to the objective standards…

Organ Transplantation and ‘Saviour Siblings’: How Fiction Depicted These Areas Through the Years Introduction In the latest years, a new kind of embryo selection has been brought to the public’s attention. Doctors can pick an embryo for implantation which will become a ‘’saviour sibling’’, a brother or a sister that is capable of donating life-saving…

“My Sister’s Keeper” is a movie released on 26 June 2009 directed by Nick Cassavetes. The cast of the movie included Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald, Abigail Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald, Evan Ellingson as Jesse, Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald, Thomas Dekker as Taylor Ambrose, Alec Baldwin as Campbell, Joan Cusack as Judge, Heather Wahlquist…