It’s always helpful and humbling to families like mine when a celebrity is an organ donor.
It brings awareness to the public of this great noble gesture. Because to be an organ donor is the greatest thing you can do for your fellow man in the event of a sudden or unexpected death.
Most of us have heard or met someone with a Cinderella story, especially in novels, who have a rich uncle that left them a fortune. Maybe it’s a million dollars in cash, or a big fancy castle, or a piece of jewelry so rare and exotic that their life is changed forever with this lucky windfall.
It doesn’t even compare to the way a person (and their loved ones) who have been on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant feels when they receive a call that a “match” has been found. A “match” that can save their life. I’ve done an Irish jig when my mother and then my sister received such a call. You can’t even imagine the gift it is!
But, the point is: Anyone who is an organ donor is a celebrity.