TRANSPLANTOLOGY

Millions of ill people around the world spend years on organ transplant waiting lists in desperate need for a new heart, liver, or kidney. Sadly, it takes another person’s death for an organ to become available. All too often, family members trying to come to terms with the death of a loved one feel unable to surrender parts of his or her body to save a stranger’s life. However, those who agree to become organ donors defy death itself. Indeed, the procedure provides the opportunity for a resuscitation of sorts – for a part of that person to live on in someone else’s body. It is little wonder that so many transplant patients report the sense of another presence inside them: the life of their donor...