Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
Collects twenty-five essays that discuss the rate of organ donation in various countries, barriers to organ donation, how the rate of donation can be increased, and organ trafficking.
After a car accident leaves her brain-dead, Jessica tries to prevent her parents from donating her organs and tissues, but then follows the lives of four fellow teens who are able to survive because she did not.
Eighteen-year-old Eric deals with the loss of his older brother Duane by meeting three of the seven recipients of Duane's organs a year after his death, and pondering who they are to him, and he to them.
Years after a terrible rift separates twins Libby and Sam, the pair is forced to come to terms with the event that drove them apart when Libby discovers that she needs a kidney transplant.
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion and finds his life forever changed when he becomes the first person to receive a hand transplant.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
Eighteen-year-old Eric deals with the loss of his older brother Duane by meeting three of the seven recipients of Duane's organs a year after his death, and pondering who they are to him, and he to them.
