To Remember Me |
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The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. | |
At a certain moment, a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. | |
When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine, and don’t call this my death bed. Let this be called the bed of life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives. | |
Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby’s face or love in the eyes of a woman. | |
Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain. | |
Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play. | |
Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist. | |
Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk. | |
Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain against her window. | |
Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. | |
If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all prejudice against my fellow man. | |
If by chance you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or a word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever. | |
Written by: Robert. N. Test | |
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October 15, 2014 by kmabarrett
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