THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: The heart of the matter — The story of Dan Christ's heart transplant, and the Coeur d'Alene man's message of hope to others

"I can’t say enough about organ donation,” he said. “I’m alive today, because somebody checked the box. That person is a lifesaver, because especially in my case, if that heart hadn’t worked, my condition was getting so bad, we just don’t know when the next heart would come available. “So I can’t say enough about the donor’s family, and how grateful I am to them.”