A Parent's Pain

The video in this post is one that elicited quite an emotional response from me.  I cannot imagine the pain these parents went through with the death of their daughter.  It does appear, however, that through the amazing donation of their daughter's heart to another, there has been some help in progressing through their grief.  Have tissues handy, as this is a touching story . . . .

The story highlights the continuing dialogue of organ donation and how difficult the decision must be for those who are making the painful decision during the time in which their loved ones have been declared medically unable to survive.  In addition, this story also points out the conflicting feelings a donor recipient goes through in receiving the organs as they realize in order to do so, someone had to have died.

My hope would be that no one would have to go through what this family did, and that no one would have to make a heart breaking decision.  That said, we know that without people going through this pain and making the decisions they do, others would not have the opportunity to live.