To prevent sudden cardiac death as a result of fatal arrhythmias, the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) is increasing each year in Australia and worldwide. Such rapidly expanding biotechnology remains poorly understood. Themes emerging from the dialogue of the key players in heart implantation include the existential concepts: implantation as body-liminality; body-temporality/time; body-spatiality/movement; body-emotionality; body-sexuality/gender/ and body-relationality. The phenomenon of implantation has profound meaning of liminality as 'Being on the threshold of life...