The Gift of Life

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 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 has 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 against 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.

This poem I’ve found from the website one year ago. After read through this poem, I felt it is quite conscious and touching, so I just copy and paste it here to share with you.

To Remember Me....... It is impossible to force everyone in this world to remember me unless I am a well-known figure.....hahaha

May be this few words I will say to my lover, parents, my children or grandchild in the future. We all do not know where we will go and what will happen after we have death......but one thing I believe that if our organ and tissues are still functioning after we have died, we can donate and help others who need our help.

Past few years, we can read the newspaper reported that many transplantation surgeries were held in Malaysia, how mighty the organ donor and the number of organ donor is keep increasing....even though there is increasing in small number but such a good news for the patients who need organ transplantation. I still remember that when i decided to sign up as an organ donor, I do not ask permission from my family because I was above 18 years old, I have the right to decide what I should do.

After one week I have signed up, when I went back to my hometown, I told my mum that I have already signed up as an organ donor. At that moment, my mum din show any reaction to me and just told me, "alright... son, this is your choice!"....... Then I was started explain to her the benefits and purpose to be an organ donor, I know my mum wont combat me as an organ donor because she is a open-minded person......hehe

In last time, the old generation sure will reject be an organ donor because they said if u have death, u must 'to stay the whole corpse' (所谓死都要留全尸) if not, this is not good.... After that, when i asked for the reason, they sure cant give me the exactly answer..... they will alway answered, "I say not good ma not good, dont do it!! It's not good for u....." but I alway like to kacau them and asked, "If not good, sure got reason rite? Please tell me the reason why it's not good.... plz, plz, plz...." When they cannot answer my question, they will cabut away..... hehehe Am I so bad? XD

After few minutes past, my mum asked me, "son, at the end if we regret to let u as an organ donor, can we reject it?......."

I said, "Sure, mum, the final decision is in your hand, if after I death, you dun wan my organ to be removed for the purpose of transplantation, you can reject it...."

I do not know what're the reason my mum will asked this type of question, maybe she will regret in the future........hahaha but I have told her that I really wish to be an organ donor , that's why i signed up for it!! I have signed up as an organ donor since May 2008, the Hospital has gave me a light green colour Malaysian Donor card and ask me to keep it. This is the Malaysian Donor card look like:

The following is the Chinese version, which is translated by

苏惠智 （中华民国器官捐赠协会创会秘书长）

如果你要怀念我 To Remember Me

总有一天，

我会躺在医院的白色被單下。

总有一个时候，

医生认定我的脑功能已经停止。

那表示， 我的生命已经结束了。

那时候，请千万不要称呼那是死亡之床，

而因该称为生命之床，

因为我要将我的身体拿出来帮助别人，

延续他们的生命。

让我的眼 - 给一位从来没有见过人世的人；

将我的心 - 给一位拥有一颗使他痛苦的心脏的人；

把我的肾 - 交给那老是去洗肾的人；

用我的筋骨、 神经，让跛脚的孩童行走；

烧去我的残殼，

变成可绽放美丽花朵的肥料。

如果必须埋葬什么，

请埋葬我的过错、软弱及偏见。

将我的罪归还恶魔、将我的靈交给神。

如果你要怀念我，请与我一样；

让我们都永生不死。