Editing Kerry Packer (section)

==Failing health==
Packer suffered as many as four [[Heart attack|heart attacks]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-05-02|title=Tall tales and a big vision: Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket 40 years on |first= Andy|last= Bull|url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/02/the-spin-kerry-packer-world-series-cricket|access-date=14 August 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> In 1990, while playing polo at [[Warwick Farm Racecourse|Warwick Farm]], Sydney, he suffered from a heart attack that left him [[clinical death|clinically dead]] for seven minutes.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Riley|first=Mark|date=2020-10-06|title=From the Archives, 1990: Kerry Packer fights for life after heart attack|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-the-archives-1990-kerry-packer-fights-for-life-after-heart-attack-20200930-p560nf.html|access-date=2021-08-14|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> Packer was revived by paramedics and then airlifted to St Vincent's Private Hospital, Sydney, and received [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|bypass surgery]] from [[Victor Chang|Dr Victor Chang]], a pioneering cardiac surgeon. It was not common for an ambulance to have a [[defibrillator]] at the time – it was purely by chance that the ambulance which responded to the call had one fitted.

After recovering, Packer donated a large sum to the [[Ambulance Service of New South Wales]] to pay for equipping all NSW ambulances with a portable defibrillator (colloquially known as "[[Packer Whackers]]"). He told [[Nick Greiner]] "I'll go you 50/50", and the NSW State government paid the other half of the cost. He is reported to have said, "Son, I've been to the other side, and let me tell you, there's nothing there."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/28/guardianobituaries.cricket Obituary: Kerry Packer] The Guardian. Retrieved on 2018-04-27.</ref> And in a press conference, "...there's no one waiting there for you, there's no one to judge you, so you can [[Nihilism|do what you bloody well like]]".<ref>Carbone, Suzanne, and Lawrence Money (31 August 2009), 
[http://www.theage.com.au/national/hold-on-kerry-it-seems-there-is-something-there-20090830-f3vl.html "Hold on, Kerry. It seems there is something there"], Theage.com.au. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104195828/http://www.theage.com.au/national/hold-on-kerry-it-seems-there-is-something-there-20090830-f3vl.html |date=4 January 2016 }}. Retrieved 20 August 2013.</ref>

He also suffered from a chronic [[kidney]] condition for many years, and in 2000, he made headlines when his long-serving [[helicopter]] pilot, Nick Ross, donated one of his own kidneys to Packer for [[Organ transplant|transplantation]]. The story of the transplant was covered in detail by the Australian TV documentary program ''[[Australian Story]]'', a rare occasion on which Packer granted a media interview (and, to the surprise of many, not to his own network; ''Australian Story'' is produced by the public network, [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]). After recovering from the operation, Packer launched an organ transplant association in memory of cricketer [[David Hookes]].