My Life After Death: Inside Organ Donation
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- What started as a typical school night ended in an unexpected tragedy when Zade collapsed and was rushed to the hospital with a severe brain bleed. Despite the heroic efforts of doctors, Zade couldn’t be saved. However, her story didn't end there.
Zade's parents made the courageous decision to donate her organs, giving the gift of life to others in desperate need. Hear how Zade's organs saved several lives, including those of young children and a mother on dialysis for years. This moving account underscores the profound impact of organ donation and celebrates the beautiful legacy Zade left behind.
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I'm an organ donor & I feel good in myself knowing that when I pass away, I will live on in 7 other people.
My son received a liver transplant from a man closer to his age who died in an accident. I am so grateful for that act that saved my son’s life. He was 42, married and had 2 kids and dying. He wanted to watch them graduate from school, get married, have their own kids and sit in a rocker with is wife and grow old. He received his transplant October 18th 2022. He alive today either from the man being a donor or his family donating their loved ones organs. Thank you to all who become donors or families who donate their family member organs. My son is alive because of that. You don’t know what it means to me!
Cried through whole film. My Aunt and 2 cousins have donated their organs. It's truly a gift to birth life and to save a life. And the hardest choice to make for each family. ❤❤❤❤❤
This made me sob. I'm so grateful for my health and for being an organ donor if my health ever fails. I urge every person who reads this to sign up to become a donor yourselves - it really is important.
I am!!!❤ I have been since I could drive. I don’t know if they will be able to use them for much longer because I’m 70 years old now. I’m also from the USA 🇺🇸
@@theresarasche3173 itdepends , if you have healthy eyes, kidneys, liver and if you make it clear before any surgery that you still want to. Ppl who smoke, drink excessively and take a lot of prescriptions/illegal drugs aren't good candidates. Ask you doctor to do a simple blood test to check your liver and kidney function and TELL your FAMILY you want to donate, if you are a good candidate atyour age. I am 54 yrs old and unfortunately I am not a good candidate for giving my liver (it is fatty and chirrotic... I spelled that wrong.)
@@theresarasche3173Same here.
I have a ❤ on my driver's license
Bless all the organ donors and their families for the precious gifts of life they have given others. I just received my kidney transplant on Tuesday. ❤ and prayers to my donors family.
That is fantastic, I hope you are doing well. Can I ask if you are in Oz?
@@trishlett40 SC
My cousin had a kidney transplant over 40 years ago, still doing well. Forever thankful
Such a moving documentary- my daughter’s best friend gave her a kidney and the gift of life last year. I will never be able to express my love and gratitude to Sandra. I cried with relief watching this film, ever grateful that our story had a happy ending. To anyone who has registered as an organ donor, thank you!
I heard an organ donation commercial on a radio station one day driving home and immediately registered
I have dementia now at 59 yrs and I'm so happy to know I'm able to give life once mine is over
It's too precious to waste ❤❤❤
What a beautiful and selfless thing. I hope you get to see many more years of happiness.
We just lost my beautiful mum in law to a massive brain bleed on Wednesday. She was an organ donor. She was the most selfless person I've ever known, her last act on earth was to donate her organs to give life to others. My heart is broken, I miss her so much 💔
@@RandomYTUser34 It’s horrible losing someone you love. I know how that feels and I still miss them every day.
I know two beautiful sisters who each needed and received a donated liver. Thank you to their donors.
I recently lost my Aunt she was an organ donor and watching this made me want to to be one myself❤
My husband was in a car accident. He was an organ donor. His lungs and one kidney live on in two people. He was a tissue donor too. He died 4/19/24
I’m sorry for your loss.
@@angelagendreau3586 I am so sorry for your loss🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Thank you both. He wanted to do so to help others. So someone else’s family wouldn’t have to go through what we are. He didn’t need them anymore.
My son received a liver transplant for a man closer to his age who died in an accident. I am so grateful for that act that saved my son’s life. He was 42, married and had 2 kids and dying. He wanted to watch them graduate from school, get married, have their own kids and sit in a rocker with is wife and grow old. He received his transplant October 18th 2022. He alive today either from the man being a donor or his family donating their loved ones organs. Thank you to all who become donors or families who donate their family member organs. My son is alive because of that. You don’t know what it means to me! The medical team was top notch that did the long surgery. I am forever grateful.
Magnificent outcomes from tragic losses is a humanity I can clearly see as worthwhile for all involved. The doctors and scientists that have made this happen need a massive congratulations and thankyou as well 💛
What a beautiful and sad documentary. Thank you! I am proud to be an organ donor and hope that when I pass it will help others to continue living.
I donated a kidney to someone I barely knew back in 2015. And it's the best thing I ever did. It was a little while hard and then it was back to normal for me. And the receiver has gotten his life back 👍
This is very sensitively done. I’m so glad you chose not to have actors dramatize these people’s suffering. The simple animated figures convey the circumstances while the actual voices relate the emotions without sacrificing anyone’s dignity with an actor portrayal.
I sobbing…😢😢😢😢 .. I can’t imagine the loss but so beautiful giving someone else life. Zade lives on ❤❤❤
To the woman with diabetes and is fighting for ppl in her life…..it’s okay to let go and stop the suffering. Quality of life is much more important than quantity of life. I have latent autoimmune diabetes and my pancreas is failing. I have chosen not to have any amputations or extreme measures to live. I will fulfill my bucket list and I have the right to die without horrible treatments that will keep me in the hospital for the rest of my limited life
Yes!!! She's tired and wants to let go. Her parents need to respect that. They aren't and she's suffering solely for them. As a parent myself, I couldn't accept that. I couldn't tell my child what they tell her. Yes, they love her but they are being selfish.
Same.❤I wish you all the love and happiness 💞 and I hope your passing is peaceful ❤😅
@@Froggie757froggiefroggiefroggi thank you
That really bothered me, too. She is desperate and tired. Vomiting every day for 15 days. And that's all we know. Her mother didn't want to hear her exhaustion as it is. Her mom doesn't understand the depth of her exhaustion.
"After my death I would donate my organs" I once said.
Until I found out that the most important organs can not be donated "after my death". They would be useless. A dead organ is a dead organ. As long as the heart is beating your organs are fine for donation.
They would harvest them while my heart would be beating, even though de doctors claim I am dead.
I am truly dead when my heart stops beating, not when my brain is damaged beyond repair.
After a deadly car crash and someone declairs you are dead....your heart is NOT BEATING anymore. They can put you on a life support machine whatever they want. Your heart wouldn't beat.
Define death.
Define murder.
I am an organ donor, and it's surprising what they can do these days. When my father died of a massive heart attack 10 years ago, his organs were not eligible to be donated, however, they were able to take other elements like skin, bone, other tissues, and his corneas. We got a card from the donation organization that his corneas did go to a recipient, and although we don't know who that is, it's comforting to know there is someone able to see through my father's eyes.
This was so heart felt heart warming, I am a registered organ donor although my heart will not be viable I have many other organs that will be able to be used . I encourage everyone who can get on the list please, it could be one of your family who will need an organ some day
Such a sad and happy story at the same time 😢😢😢. Way too many young people who died to save others from their own suffering! My thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved ❤🙏🙏🙏❤️
Oh my goodness. Holly embracing her donors mother "these little lungs mustve loved cuddling you". That killed me. What a beautiful woman ❤
Tears. What a moving documentary.
If that last part doesn't make you tear up.. Whew. Organ donation is so important.
I think the thousands of dollars that the hospital makes off our loved ones organs should go to the donors family not the hospital .
@@mzcorinnecole I completely agree and have said the same before as well.
Unless you’re in the nhs. We don’t have a choice unless we opt out of donating. Faces, penises
It a money market. They get the organs for free but charge 100s of thousands of dollars. Then, the meds after u receive the organs cost 100s a month
I completely agree
Says who? I didn't hear anyone talking about having to pay thousands for a transplant. Fiona Stanley is a public hospital, it costs nothing to be treated in there. If you choose private well even then they can't charge hundreds of thousands. There are laws in place for private surgeons & hospitals, insurance just wouldn't pay it. Are you guys commenting Aussies?
When they said they buried her in a red dress too.....I lost it. I have my organ donor card.
❤ rip beautiful girl bless this family.... I think if your willing to take an organ you should be willing to donate... you don't need them in the cemetery ❤❤❤
I so truly sorry for your loss 🙏🏾🕊️✨
It's incredibly selfish to not want to donate your organs when you pass away....why would you not do it!... You should be as happy to donate as you would be if you were the recipient of a donated organ that saved your life or that of a loved one ❤
You can't possibly make that comment until you've been the surviving family member of an organ donor. It's not the beautiful fairytale the drs would have you believe. It's like vultures circling around your most important person praying for their chest to stop moving, willing them to die so they can kick you out the room and get to work.
What we just experienced on Wednesday night was an absolute horror show and has left us traumatised, on top of the trauma of losing a fit, healthy, amazing mum at 57. I'll never put my husband and kids through that. They mean more to me than anyone else on the earth. My organs will be buried with the rest of me, peacefully.
@@RandomYTUser34 and meanwhile a person who also has loved ones will have to die when they could have lived..... And, to be fair, you don't know my history
@purplemonkey6178 my family will always come before anyone else on the planet. The absolute horror I was faced with as a 38 year old woman will stay with me for the rest of my life. Its my job to shield my children from that. It's not, however, my job to save the world.
@@RandomYTUser34 do you regret your lovely mum selflessly giving life to other people who couldn't have survived without her? She did the right thing and it should have inspired you to the same.... It's brings something so positive from an awful situation. It gives a future to adults and children who wouldn't have had one. Your mum did a beautiful thing.
I've been an organ donor since I was 16 and got my first provisional driving licence. I'm now 46 and it makes me feel good that when I'm gone that I will be able to hopefully help others. I believe that the body is just the shell once you're gone and that it's important that anything viable is used after my death to help others to live their lives.
I am completely undone . Wonderful film .
I just can’t believe that Spain, the country with the highest rate of donors, only has 36:1,000,000. I’m actually flabbergasted.
Zaidee! Sometimes , all that glitters is gold ?🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💭💭💭🙏🙏🙏
Such beautiful people ❤
Ive noticed alot cf patience are living long3r... My friends son died right before his 21st bday and another friend her son i think was not 18 yet.
I’m a double lung recipient and a donor should something happen to me. I’m 1 year since my donor saved my life. I’m 46 and it was the best birthday present last year. I was close to dying and in the hospital waiting for my transplant praying I wasn’t going to die. I felt myself slowly getting closer to dying.
My family always knew that I wanted to donate my organs, but I was diagnosed with hepatitis nonA-nonB in 1985. That was changed to hepatitis C in 1993. Unfortunately, even though I have been treated in 2014 and am virus free, I’ve been told that I would only be able to donate to someone that’s positive for hepatitis C.
When my grandmother took me to get my state id when i was around 13 or so we talked about that and since then i make sure i check that box when it needs to be renewed.
Buying and selling of human organs is unreal.
Not sure if its still going on?
Wealthy people could jump the line.
I hope things have changed.
Buying and selling of organs in 100% illegal
I dont see the issue if you die give your organs so someone may live. Why wouldn’t you? I cant believe there is so little donations
"Why wouldn't you?" Well Mad Cow is one reason or to be exact Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, other existing conditions like MS or vascular disease are others, should I go on or do you think you should check organ donation laws first? You can't believe there is so little donations? I can't believe people make such ignorant comments? Are you an Aussie?
@@trishlett40 no im not and it wasn’t a ignorant comment OK I simply said if you die whats wrong with donating your organs?? How many people out of a million are on the opt in list? If your organs are no good they dont get used so as mad cow got to do with the price of bacon?
@@trishlett40I bet you’re a blast to be around. My guess is you aren’t willing to donate and that’s why you’re trying so hard to get other to not donate under the guise of diseases that disqualify you.🙄🙄
@@trishlett40you’re a CHILD? Stop talking about things you clearly have no idea how they work.
@@Livingtheinvisiblelife - Apart from being an abusive stalker of my comments. You have a nerve calling me a "CHILD." I read up on the law requirements before making a statement like that. What did you do? I can guarantee you are not Australian or else you would know these things. I pay or UA-cam, do you? They tend to look after paying members, so I think I might report your abusiveness, I mean how dare you be abusive to me for knowing the laws in my country Australia about an Australian documentary on Australian organ donation, how dare you!!
This is an old documentary & this is Australia, loads of negative comments about the hospitals making hundreds of thousands from the donors organs that they think should go to the donor's family, I mean wtf? Before making out it's a simple thing to just hand over your organs think about the laws, it's sad but fantastic if you can be a donor & save someone's life, everyone can sign on the register but not everyone can donate. Pre-existing conditions like MS, the conditions around Mad Cow = Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vascular disease, prevent donation. All I'm saying is educate yourself on the laws although all states are similar to avoid you being the donor but your family says no because they didn't know, so tell them! If your not in good donation condition, you won't be!
ONE comment said that and it isn’t really a negative comment. The surgeons make money doing transplants, they get a salary doing these surgeries. There should also be away that part of the paycheck they goes to the families who decided to donate their loved one’s organs during the most horrific day of their lives, the day they permanently said goodbye to that person.
@@Livingtheinvisiblelife - Pull your head in mate & get your countries right!
I feel like the industry needs too be more transparent as a former embalming apprentice I seen how they take EVERYTHING from skin bones eyes some folks can’t have a open casket just so people can have their own affairs in order if a donor
So you rather living people just dying because you’re worried about having an open casket? The most selfish comment I’ve seen so far. The dead person doesn’t care if their casket is open, closed, or they’re cremated, the only reason to not donate because you can’t have an open casket is out of selfishness on the living people. You can say your goodbye through the closed casket.
@@Livingtheinvisiblelife it’s more so for the family folks don’t realize that we take everything I just stated we have to be more transparent too the donor so they know what they are getting into
@@melyssa_rene2465 pretty sure people know what they’re signing up for when they say you can take their organs, corneas, skin, and bone. If you can’t figure out that marks will be left behind when you take donor skin, you have bigger problems than not being able to have an open casket.
My. Wife has to do the same for me. Very humiliating!
I changed my mind about donating my organs or body after finding out that my skeleton could be sold online to anyone.
Donating organs is great but there needs to be limitations on what can be used or sold.
Omg I couldn't imagine losing one of my kid's i do know i will go an have to be with them i couldn't let them be alone if there is a heaven i cant let them be alone i will go with them and join them with in minutes of finding out God forbid
And leave the others left behind, to deal with the grieve? That's just selfish.
My Mum donated her corneas and the whites of her eyes and these were able to help 4 people
😢😢
We should all not expect or ask for others to prolong our fate! That’s incredibly selfish and cruel.
Me parece una grosería que no pongan subtítulos en todos los idiomas? O solo quieren que lean ciertas personas? Es una página grande que trabajo es poner subtítulos?
Amazing glad I'm a donor x
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this is so sad
Im a donor. They can have everything
He got the right t shirt on.
If ur going to tell a storyline, u also need to let people know that a lot of the time, the body will reject the organ. Then the organ was waisted, and the person went thru that for nothing
Not wasted! All organs have this possibility of rejection. To have been rejected by a body is to have first donated with the hope of saving lives. It's the effort that counts, not always merely the outcome.
My daughter’s donor knew full well that the organ could be rejected but she still felt it would absolutely be worth a try. How sad that you have such a negative attitude- why try and rob someone of hope?
They’re dead anyway why wouldn’t you want to try?
I am an organ donor. I just say that they would tell u everything, not just the good. The bad and ugly as well. Just like in USA if u didn't get covid vaccine or smoke cigarettes, u don't qualify for an organ. But at the same time, they will use organs from those people
I mean that’s not at all true. One of my middle school teachers had a transplant in the late 1990’s and he’s still very much alive with that same kidney. I also know a girl who’s going on year 20 with the same set of transplanted lungs and another girl who’s going on 15 years with the same liver she got as an infant.
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