Shortly before Curtis was pronounced dead, the Cherry Hill couple agreed to donate his organs, which saved four lives and helped others through tissue donation.
Tom Gano knew after the first tests that the likely outcome was bleak. They prayed at his bedside, hoping for a miracle. Cohen, one of the world’s oldest liver transplant recipients, dies at 94
“I never thought I’d have to make that decision for my children,” said Tom Gano, 80, a retired IT specialist, choking back tears. The South Jersey couple has crisscrossed the region, sharing their son’s story with about 290,000 students and talking about their decision to donate his organs when doctors at Cooper Hospital in Camden declared Curtis brain-dead two days after he was struck by a van on July 6, 1987.
