Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 93, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 December 1981 — Page 7

Dear Abby

Organ donation proves to be life-giving legacy

DEAR ABBY: My best friend was killed in a motorcycle accident on Thanksgiving Day. He was only 22. Because of something he read in your column, he had sent for a card to will his eyes and kidneys to an organ bank in the event of his death. I just wanted you to know, Abby, that because of you two blind people now see, and two others got a healthy kidney. My friend is gone, but he left something worth more than anything monev can buy. Thank you. JERRY’S PAL DEAR PAL: I appreciate your letter, which gives me an ideal opportunity to inspire others to do what your pal Jerry did. Poet Robert N. Test wrote: “The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet tucked neatly under the four corners of a mattress, located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that for all intents and purposes my life has stopped. “When that happens, do not attempt to install artificial life into my body by the use of a machine and don’t call this my deathbed. Let it be called the bed of life and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives. “Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby’s face or love in the eyes of a woman. Give my heart to the person who has nothing but endless days of pain. Give my blood to the teen-ager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car so that he may live to see his grandchildren play. Give my kidneys to a person who depends upon a machine to exist from week to week. Take my bones, every muscle fiber, every nerve and try to find a way to make a crippled child walk. Explore every corner of my brain, take my cells, if necessary, and let them

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grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat or a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window. “Burn the rest and scatter the ashes to the wind to help the flowers grow. “If you must bury something, bury my faults, my weaknesses and my prejudices against my fellow man. Give my sins to the devil, give my soul to God. “If by chance you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or a word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.” For information on willing your organs after death, please send a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope to: The Living Bank, P.O. Box 6725, Houston, Texas 77005. You will be sent a card that should be carried at all times. I carry such a card, and I feel that there is nothing I could leave after my death that will be of greater value. ABBY * * * CONFIDENTIAL to all of you out there celebrating the holidays: If you’re drinking, don’t drive. If you’re driving, don’t drink. * * * Do you hate to write letters because you don’t know what to say? Thank-you notes, sympathy letters, congratulations, how to decline and accept invitations and how to write an interesting letter are included in Abby’s booklet, “How to Write Letters for All Occasions.” Send $2 and a long, stamped (37 cents), self-addressed envelope to: Abby, Letter Booklet, 12060 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 5000, Hawthorne, Calif. 90250.

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