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The Doctors Who Are Redefining Life and Death

washingtonpost.com — "Pick up a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, and you'll see the far edge of this tortured world. In the journal, doctors at Children's Hospital in Denver describe how they removed hearts from infants 75 seconds after they stopped. The infants were declared dead of heart failure, even as their hearts, in new bodies, resumed..."

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  • dezweber, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1I am always in complete amazement at the selflessness and courage of these parents who donate their children's organs. I don't know what I'd do in the face of tragedy.

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