Photograph taken from the head of the operating table during cardiac organ recovery. This was taken in February 1984, the second epoch of cardiac transplantation at Houston Methodist Hospital. The photograph captures a solemn and sacred moment that highlights the touching humanity of cardiac transplantation. The heart was from a donor who was declared brain dead and was soon to be stitched into a patient with advanced heart failure and reanimated in an adjoining operating suite as “a gift of life.”