“In the history of medicine how many patients, thirty years after their death, have been influencing the life-and-death decisions of thousands of bereaved families around the world every year? Perhaps only one, my seven-year-old son, Nicholas.”
So begins an article by Reg Green in the form of a letter to the editor of Transplantation International, the journal of the European Society of Transplantation.
Here is a link to the whole story:
The Nicholas Effect 