Joseph Helfgot's widow, Susan Whitman, tells how she made the difficult choice of donating her husband's face for transplant.
By Sharon Waxman
The decision to donate her husband’s face to a man she’d never met in need of one was not done lightly by Susan Whitman. In the space of three excruciating, exhiliarating days, Whitman learned that a donor heart was available for her husband, Joseph Helfgot, who had been waiting for one for more than a year. She then learned that he had not survived the transplant surgery, that there was a request to consider organ donation and finally the decision to donate Helfgot’s face to a man who’d been suffering for several ye...
By Sharon Waxman
The decision to donate her husband’s face to a man she’d never met in need of one was not done lightly by Susan Whitman. In the space of three excruciating, exhiliarating days, Whitman learned that a donor heart was available for her husband, Joseph Helfgot, who had been waiting for one for more than a year. She then learned that he had not survived the transplant surgery, that there was a request to consider organ donation and finally the decision to donate Helfgot’s face to a man who’d been suffering for several ye...
- 4/15/2009
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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