Not all organ donation stories have a happy ending

The organ donation stories are inspiring and hopeful, but Anita Slominska says they leave out one very important part of the story. When Anita’s sister was in her 20s, she was on a waitlist for a liver transplant and eventually ended up in the ICU, being kept alive by a ventilator in the hopes that a donor would be found. But, that didn't happen. Anita Slominska is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. We talk to her about her new book, about her sister’s story, Other Endings: Organ Transplantation and the Burdens of Hope.