With more takers than givers, people on the waiting list for a heart transplant live on hope that they will be winners in a kind of ultimate lottery.
But there are losers. Of the 6,488 people put on a waiting list for a heart between October 1987 and December 1989, 1,077 - or 16.7 percent - died before a heart became available, according to the Richmond, Va.-based United Network for Organ Sharing.
On Feb. 28, 51-year-old Jack Vyce of Guilderland was one of those losers.
"That was one of the things they don't talk about - how many people don't make it," said his wife, Joan. "Maybe we were just too hopeful things would work out."
Her husband …
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