James Maki, the second person in the US to receive a face transplant, has been telling his story in the hope that it will encourage more people to donate organs. Susan Whitman, the widow of Maki's donor, Joseph Helfgot who died after a heart transplant, also spoke to the press yesterday about patients waiting for transplants and how knowing how Maki has been helped has gone a long way to "taking the sting out" of her husband's death.