The mother is Tiki Finlayson of Tennessee. Her son Kevin, nicknamed “Sunshine”, died at the age of 25 when a drunk driver crashed head-on into his car. Tiki decided to honor him by donating his heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, bones and tissue—saving 4 lives and healing many more. One of them saved was Melvin Ellis, a minister in Alabama, who was brought back to life when he received Sunshine's heart. Tiki actually received the thank-you letter from Melvin on Sunshine’s birthday and described it as the best present she could have ever received.
She described beautifully when meeting Melvin for the first time: “As I was listening to my son's heartbeat through Melvin's chest, I thought, Wow… Kevin is really a superhero. I had never been more proud of him then I was in that moment.”
Tiki and Melvin have joined a national campaign called “BeTheGift”—a completely fresh and fun way to encourage more organ and tissue donation. For reasons I don't have to explain, organ and tissue donation is not a subject on everyone's lips. People generally avoid the subject of death, which means they also avoid the subject of donation.
The facts are amazing: Today, 115,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving organs; 20 of them die every day, still waiting. Meanwhile, more than 90 percent of Americans say they believe in donation but only 54% are actually registered. People just don't realize that they can register online and how easy the process is.
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