9-year-old shooting victim's organs help save child

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Arizona Republic

(The family of) Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in Saturday's shootings in Tucson, donated her organs.

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The Most Rev. Gerald Kicanas, Bishop of Tucson told the crowd that Christina's organs were donated.

And a friend helping the Green family said they received a call yesterday from the organ donation network, telling them that Christina's donation had already saved the life of a child on the East Coast.






Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/13/20110113arizona-shootings-christina-green-organs.html

[applegrove]

1. .

:cry:

[avaistheone1]

37. Dang.

What a wonderful family. :cry:

[Ken Burch]

46. True dat

:cry:

[MrMickeysMom]

2. What a wonderful act of the family...

... Something good..

I'm taking pause....

[DesertFlower]

3. that's great. nt

[bettyellen]

4. wonderful

[panader0]

5. Wow k and r

[drm604]

6. Very nice.

Good for them.

[Cleita]

7. In a sense she will live on.

That child will hold her in his/her memory for giving him/her a second chance at life.

[Pirate Smile]

8. Of course they did.

It fits with her life. :cry:

[elleng]

12. Yes,

she 'liked to think of herself as something good that came into the world that awful day.'

[elleng]

9. ...

;( :grouphug: :thumbsup:

[msanthrope]

10. More tears. What a decent, loving family. n/t

[Ilsa]

11. What an incredibly unselfish thing to do. Bless them all. nt

[uppityperson]

13. Aw crap. Of course and what a wonderful thing to do.

[bullwinkle428]

14. Beautiful.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. God bless them for this selfless act.

:cry:

[Harry Monroe]

16. Something good out of this tragedy

The Green family is simply amazing!!

[Lugnut]

17. Oh my.

What a generous unselfish act of kindness.

[Kurovski]

18. K&R. (nt)

[me b zola]

19. K&R

[Justitia]

20. A pediatric organ donation saved my son's life. I think of his donor family all the time.

I cried for them when I learned my son would receive their child's organ.

I can't convey all the conflicting emotions, but the most overwhelming is gratitude.

[kas125]

23. A few months ago, a teenager I know received new lungs

because she has cystic fibrosis. Everyone who knows her is so very grateful for the family of the child whose lungs she got. It was definitely a child because she was so sick and tiny, didn't even weigh eighty pounds. She is doing so well now that's it's simply amazing. I'm so glad that she and your son were the recipients of such selfless gifts! Everyone who can should be an organ donor, it's something important that makes a real difference and something that we can all do.

[Nihil]

31. "Everyone who can should be an organ donor ..."

> .. it's something important that makes a real difference and
> something that we can all do.

Totally agree.

There was a good awareness campaign in the UK recently that went along
the lines of "If you would be prepared to accept a donated organ for
yourself or your loved ones, how can you not be prepared to donate one?".

:shrug:

[JudyM]

33. Did you ever meet them?

Just wondering if you know who they are and if they expressed any interest in hearing about your son's life from time to time. Seems I would.

Hard to imagine what they feel.

[Justitia]

40. No, it was an anonymous donation through the state's donation network.

All we knew was that it was a 4 yr old who had died within 24 hrs of my son's transplant.

Of course, we understood that it must have been under tragic circumstances.

I don't really know the regional protocol (i.e., if they were given an option to make themselves known to us).

I began scripting a letter to them in my head, but words would never be enough, would they?

Thank you so much to every family out there that has saved multiple lives through organ donation.

You have no idea how many lives are changed forever for the better by your selfless gift of life.

[tavalon]

50. Words, no, (and I know it would need to be them initiating)

but as a NICU nurse, pictures speak a thousand words. We got so many pictures this Christmas on the unit and it was just magnificent every time I recognized a child, now thriving, who started out on a rocky road.

[jennied]

21. Bittersweet.

[The Second Stone]

22. We will never know how deep the tragedy of losing

this little girl Christina is.

[kestrel91316]

24. Though exiled, she lives yet.

[AllyCat]

25. True compassion.

In the face of unbelievable grief, this family and their loved daughter have saved someone else.

[Swagman]

26. a nice memorial to that darling child we will not forget

[Blacksheep214]

27. Saved a life on the East coast

Maybe because of Brewers fucked up death panels which have people dieing in Arizona because she wants to score political points.

May only good things happen for the Green family.

[leftynyc]

28. Awesome

I hope her family is gaining some comfort from that.

[rasputin1952]

29. What a beautiful act...may her family find Peace knowing that...

as she walked through the door, she left things behind for other to carry on...

[polmaven]

30. There are no words

sufficient to express the goodness of the souls who made this decision. Christina will continue to live.

[Beacool]

32. What a generous thing for the family to do!!!!

:hug:

[jwirr]

34. That is such a beautiful feeling when you know your little one can

live on in some other child's life. We had a 5 year old hit by a car who donated 11 organs and it has been a comfort for the whole family. Christina lives on in this act of love.

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[yellerpup]

36. Beautiful.

K&R

[Travelman]

38. What a fantastic testament to this family's character!

I cannot even imagine being in the middle of that chaos in addition to having just lost one's child to violence and still having the presence of mind to make the choice to donate her organs. Absolutely sterling character.


If there's any sort of silver lining on any of this mess, this is it.

[bdamomma]

39. wow, that is great.

her spirit will live in others, and giving life to others. wow.

[sdfernando]

41. Damn....

I have been able to hold back the tears through all of this so far, but reading this touched something inside and now it is all flowing out. Guess it needed to come out.

I cannot ever imagine the pain and anguish this family is going through...and through all of that they still thought of others. These are the kind of people this country, indeed this world, is in desperate need of. I wish them all the love and grace this weary world has to give. I wish them peace. I would give anything for them to have their angel back in their arms!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[rbnyc]

42. I think it's the only possible thing a parent could do...

...to spare another mother and father from the immense, unimaginable pain.

As an agnostic, who believes that spirituality is very personal and that I could never personally have any definitive knowledge about God or divinity in my lifetime, I rarely talk about God or use phrases like “God bless.” But in my heart, I have no truer words that God bless them. God bless them, sincerely.

Edit: typo

[namelessone]

43. Donating organs

That is so hard to do... I had to do it when my husband died suddenly. But it makes sense. Healing out of hurt.

[burrowowl]

44. What a generous beautiful act

[emulatorloo]

45. Thank you for posting. Christina, we love you n/t

[demigoddess]

47. love to the parents.

:cry: :cry:

[IcyPeas]

48. when you think how much their lives have changed in 1 week...

what an incredible thing to have done. Christina lives on.

[tavalon]

49. That is so touching

Life from death. That beautiful child's parents gave the greatest gift from what is the greatest tragedy a parent can ever face.

[lucca18]

51. So beautiful...

What a truly wonderful family...

[AnnieBW]

52. I hope that at least one of the recipients

grows up to be a Major League Baseball player, in honor of Christina.

[Youth Uprising]

53. What a wonderful act of selflessness...

The death of this poor, innocent, little child is heart-wrenching. :cry:
And in the face of grief all her family could do was think of others. God bless Christina Taylor Green's family.