Some two years ago, prior to writing this article Francisco Varela was battling with the worsening complications of Hepatitis C which had evolved over the years through cirrhosis, and then to liver cancer, and then to the necessity for a liver transplant. He describes the experience of the transplant and its aftermath in these notes written prior to his death on May 28th, 2001. He uses his own experiences very vividly to make some important phenomenological reflections on post transplantation life, personal identity, embodiment and many other important issues. This is an incomplete version of the text published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, No. 5-7, 2001, pp. 259-71.
Intimate Distances - Fragments for a Phenomenology of Organ Transplantation
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