My exact thought when I first heard this was 'couldn't there have been a better use for a heart than prolonging Dick Cheney's life?' I still think we should give him a rifle and send him to Afghanistan.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell