"Louis, just think what it will mean if we could keep a donor alive, I want to have a ward full of human beings with dead brains, but with their vital organs very much alive and healthy." Kapinsky sensed the excitement in his friend's voice. "Slow down, Rodney, we have a long way to go before you will have a ward with the living dead." He paused. "But it certainly is worth thinking of the scientific possibilities."