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How to process contact from organ recipients

I donated my brother's organs after his accident and the recipient sent me a thank you card with his heartbeat pattern from an EKG and I do not know how to feel about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Organ donation extends the deceased's physical presence in unexpected ways that can complicate the griever's sense of where their loved one begins and ends.

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