Normally, hearts can only be donated in Canada after brain or neurological death, where the heart continues to beat after the patient is declared deceased. But within hours of that initial 'no,' while ...
Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Lorraine Sherren says what's holding her together as she and her husband grieve the death of their 40-year-old son is knowing he ...
Normally, hearts can only be donated in Canada after brain or neurological death, where the heart continues to beat after the patient is declared deceased. But within hours of that initial 'no ...
Robbie Sherren was always a giver. The 40-year-old Kingston man, who recently became the first adult heart donor in Canada to donate after circulatory death — which happens when a person’s heart ...
For Lorraine and Derk Sherren, the unexpected death of their 40-year-old son was crushing enough on its own, but the tragedy felt compounded when the couple heard it wouldn’t be possible to ...
In Germany, numerous individuals are hoping for a potentially lifesaving donor organ. The need for life-saving organ donations in Germany: Thousands of people are waiting, sometimes for years, in ...