Legacy MattersIf you knew that your body after your death could save two people's lives would you sign an organ donor card? Think of the happiness and gratitude of the families
Maxine Walters did. Well, she didn't sign an organ donor card, but she told her long term partner while watching the news of the tsunami in South Asia, "You see all them people dying? If anything happens to me, you should help them."
Maxine came from Barbados to New York City eight years ago and died of a sudden stroke at age 44.
Fortunately, her children understood what their mother and gave permission to harvest the organs.
In addition to the small acts of charity that seem easier to recall in sadness, her family said, Ms. Watson subscribed to the broad view that each person had an obligation to his or her neighbor. In her native country, Barbados, that was just the way of things. "Everyone from Barbados is family to one another," said her sister, Pauline Ellington.
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Posted by Jill Fallon at February 16, 2005 4:22 PM | Permalink