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My Heart Will Go On

My Heart Will Go On

By Ceri Harrop

As the world becomes ever more aware of the need to reduce waste, reuse items and reprocess all sorts of materials, recycling efforts could be going a little far. Doctors have saved a man’s life by transplanting into him a twice-used heart.

Clearly all organs that are transplanted are technically “second-hand” items, but in this extraordinary case, the heart had already been transplanted once before. The first recipient of the heart suffered non-heart related complications an