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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

To Remember Me - I will live forever

Robert N. Test

  The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under 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 instill 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 a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain. 

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play. 

Give my kidneys to the one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. 

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk. 

Explore every corner of my brain. 

Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain agianst her window. 

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. 

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weakness and all prejudice 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 word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever. 

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Thanks everyone.

I guess I do owe everyone an explanation. Last winter I got very sick with a very high temp. After a lot of tests it was found to be an infection in my kidney. While the doctors were able to cure the infection the damage was severe. My kidney function has been declining steadily all year. According to the nephrologist complete failure is inevitable. So I'm looking at dialysis and, with no close relative being a good tissue match, the transplant waiting list. I'm in no immediate danger of dying, or at least so I'm told.

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ORIGINAL: calamitysandra

I hope a donor for you will be found soon.

I have been carrying the card since I was 14, and I am registered  in the bone marrow donor register as well.

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ORIGINAL: calamitysandra
I hope a donor for you will be found soon.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: calamitysandra
I hope a donor for you will be found soon.

I'm torn since I find it hard to hope for someone else to die.

I do appreciate everyone's kind words.