Organ Donation

Boy's Gift at Death Educates Italians About Transplantation

Published in Blood Weekly, September 14th, 2000

Organ donations from a seven-year-old American slain by bandits in southern Italy in 1994 have helped keep at least five people alive to this day, the boy's father told an international organ transplant conference in Rome, Italy, on August 28, 2000.

As importantly, the gift by the boy's parents has helped foster organ donation in long-reluctant Italy, his father said.

"The tragic story that hit my family in '94 has helped Italians understand the importance of organ donations," the father told the International Conference of Transplantation.

He urged a culture of organ donation, saying "donation must become a natural fact."...

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