he discusses his findings with transplant recipient sally satel. >> mr. dick teresi, nice to meet you. this book, and you written others about physics and history of science and even a book on the brain. how did you come to write about organ transplantation and death determination? >> i wasn't drawn to organ transplantation at all. i was stoned to death. the reason was i was watching carl sagan on the charlie rose show in the 1990s. he announced that he had had his second or third own marrow transplant because of a cancerous disease he had. it saved his life. he had been saved by science. my wife looked at me and said, wow, he's going to die, and soon. and i said why do you think? >> this is the denial speech. she had cancer and she was in support groups. this is a speech who are given by those who are pronounced terminal. the show finished, and they announced that it had done everyone. that he had died. he had been taped a couple months earlier, and the man who had been saved by science was dead. he said an interesting thing in his show, which rose had a