http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/19/earlyshow/living/main637069.shtmlChet Szuber says, “She had been in a bad car accident. The doctor told me, don't even bother coming down. We're about 700 miles from Knoxville, where she was at. He says, ‘Death appears to be but moments away.’ And, I don't think that anyone can possibly describe the emotions that parents go through after a conversation like that.”
Crying, Patti’s sister, Jeanette, says, “I was home at the time. My mom woke me up, and she told me Patti had been in an accident. And they didn't expect her to make it. And so, it's hard.”
The family rushed to Tennessee. Though they knew Patti had signed an organ donor card months earlier, they were stunned when a doctor said...
“‘You can have Patti's heart,’” Chet Szuber recalls. “Well, I was flabbergasted. I had never considered it; never thought about it. And I couldn't say, ‘No’ fast enough. A million things went through my mind: Is this right, is this ethical? Is this a selfish move? Can I stand the thought of every heartbeat reminding me of Patti? And I turned it down.”
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