A few months ago Houston Chronicle began following a man who got a liver through a billboard asking someone to donate for him. That was news, and an awfully interesting footnote to a broader debate about advertising and solicitation for organs. But in what is becoming an ever popular phenomenon – “bioethics watch” (think about the annual birthday hype over the septuplets, the regular features on what Jack Kevorkian does in jail, and of course the omnipresent search for Clone #1) – the AP has tracked the death of this guy.