if the wind was bad it could take you a couple -- ten days to in ifrom new york city toand ..ike, what, few hours. so, yes, there are restrictions that come from not being able to get around. but the flip >> host: mr. teresi, nice to meet you. now, this is your fifth book, "the undead," and you've written others about physics and the history of science and even a book on the brain. how did you come to write about organ transplantation and the death determination? >> guest: well, i wasn't drawn to organ transplantation at all, i was drawn to death. and the reason was i was watching carl say again on the charlie rose show with my wife several years ago in the 1990s, and he announced that he had had this, his second or third bone marrow transplant because of a cancerous disease he had and that it saved his life. he'd been saved by science. my wife looked and said, wow, he's going to die and soon. and he, i said, why do you think? she said, well, he looks bad and, second, this is the denial speech. she was in cancer support groups, and this is the speech you get out of people who are prono