I am too and it is on my DL also....

Let me telll you this.. One of the saddest day we had at the hospital where Eddie is, was when a young Coast Guard guy had been hit by a car. The halls and waiting room filled with his Coast Guard friends, openly standing around crying. I think there was little hope for the young man. The morning after he was brought in, they were all called into a meeting room and we knew what they meant. These grown young men and women in uniform came out of the room bawling like babies so we knew he had died. They stay the rest of the day and we all wondered why so I asked one of them. This young man had donated his organs and his friends would not leave him unitl they were done and his body could be taken away..

On the other side of the story. There was a man and his wife there as long as we had been there, found out they had been there since Febuary. Their son got some kind of virus at the age of 14 and it attacked his heart. He had to have a heart transplant or he would die so he got a new heart.. (NOT the Coast Guards guys, this happened before that guy had his accident) But this boy is alive today because someone made that decision to donate their organs. I am sure he has had a birthday by now that he wouldn't have had without a new heart and is now 15 years old.

We would see people running throught the halls up there all the time with ice coolers with "Human Organ" written on it. There are a LOT of lives saved today due to donations like that. My one regret in my (middle) son's death is that no one asked me if I was willing to donate his organs. I thought about it after we had buried him but, I KNOW I would have felt his death improved someone elses life and been proud of that. (Back in the early 80's organ donation was not that widely talked about or important)