I Will Live!

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a hospital mattress located in a hospital occupied by the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function at that, for the practical purpose, my life has stopped.

When that moment happens, do not attempt to install artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my death bed, let it be called the Bed of Life. And let my body be taken from it to help give others a fuller life.

Give my sight to a man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face, or love in a woman's eyes.

Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to a teenager who was pulled from a wreckage of his/hers car. So that he/she might live to see his/hers grandchildren play.

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

Take my bones, every nerve and every muscle in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk or to use their arms.

Explore every corner of my brain, take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that someday, a speechless child will shout at a crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of the rain against her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter my ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all my 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 THAT I ASK, I WILL LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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