"How Death Becomes Life" is a memoir told by a major transplant surgeon, who takes the donated organs from those who are dying and places them into people who need the organs to stay alive. This darkly endearing memoir is very sad in certain chapters, when he describes patients who have not made it through. However, there is a sort of lovely inspiration in this story. One that makes me feel I want to read more by him, that he is the kind of author that could be a favorite. However, I think that some of his work needs a little work. Some chapters felt very repetitive and uninformative. "Death Becomes Life" also describes some of the history that takes place including information about transplant surgery.