I looked quickly at him and then away, but not before I saw the tears in his eyes. This was not self-pity. She's 65, and I've told her she must think about it very carefully. I don't want to think about it. It's decided,' she told me.
Few patients are so fortunate.
For most, someone else must die so they can live. That's why these games in the snow are more about gratitude and humility, not about winning. That is why every addition is so important. Aside from close relatives like Karl Handschuch's sister, most donors in major transplant operations are like Nicholas - brain dead, their organs kept working for a time by machines. In developed countries, all opinion surveys show that the great majority of people say they favor the concept of organ donation.