Mayfield City Schools News Article

Organ Donor Myths, BUSTED!

There is an organ donation shortage in this country. As of January 2019, there are more than 113,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. Read more: https://www.doctoroz.com/article/here-s-why-you-should-become-organ-donor?cmpid=oz-vt-em-dn-oz-040919

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 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.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all prejudice against my fellow man...

...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.