Consider the ultimate gift: organ donation
Thank you, Nancy McLaughlin, for a moving article about organ donation and raising awareness with a delicate issue. Years ago, in my naivete, I would joke with the best of them. St. Peter greets you at the pearly gates and gasps, "You gave away what?"
Like most things, it's amusing until it comes through your own front door and tears your world apart. It doesn't just happen to others anymore, it's the white elephant in your own living room.
Education is swift, and no one is exempt. It can be as simple as catching a virus that attacks the heart. My husband waited for six months at Duke Hospital to receive his heart transplant. Someone in New Jersey was faced with a tragedy that rocked their world, and in the midst of that turmoil surrendered the ultimate gift. An incredibly unselfish act that we remember every day.
Please consider organ donation; I think the God we serve will honor that choice.
Barbara Currie
Summerfield
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