A gift ungiven: When a wish to be an organ donor can't be fulfilled

In the final hours of his son’s life, Francis Moran kept a newspaper article close by for comfort.
It had been written by another Ottawa father and acquaintance, Michael Curran, and told a story heartbreakingly similar to what the Moran family was enduring in a Hamilton intensive care unit.The two Ottawa families were devastated by their similar tragedies just a few months apart.
Both had 20-year-old sons who suffered traumatic brain injuries that would prove fatal: Emerson Curran, a Unive