I couldn't agree more that legislation is essential to increase this country's supply of transplantable organs and tissues.

Americans bury or cremate 20,000 transplantable organs every year.

More transplantable organs are available in China because more people are being executed.

"They're going to get a transplantable organ."

Its death leads to an irreversible loss of consciousness, although the rest of the body, including transplantable organs, may remain alive.

Any time a person under sixty years of age died, he thought, medics should harvest any transplantable organs and just worry about preserving the brain.

At age 30, Kilmer was near the peak of physical health and all his transplantable organs were immediately harvested.

The only transplantable organs available - those from people who had recently died - were scarce and did not usually produce satisfactory results.

The implication is that one, we need heroes; two, they are scarcer than transplantable organs and three, they can be found in sports.

Children in poor countries live in destitution and are turned out onto the streets, sexually exploited or murdered for transplantable organs.