INTRODUÇÃO

The day will come, I know. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and my life has stopped. When that happens, do not attempt to introduce artificial life into my body by the use of a machine.

Instead, 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 from week to week. 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 may brain. Take may cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday, a speechless boy will be able to shout as his team scores a goal 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 really want to bury something, let it be may faults, my weaknesses and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.

VOCABULARY

Donor: a person who gives something
To increase: to make larger in number
To increase: to make larger in number
To cease: to come to an end; to stop
To attempt: to try
To be pulled: to be removed
Wreckage: the broken parts of something that has been destroyed
Crippled: not able to walk because of an injury or a disease
Speechless: not able to speak
Deaf: no able to hear
To scatter: to spread or throw about in all directions
Ash: the gray substance left after something has burned
To bury: to put in the earth; to inter
Fault: something that is wrong or bad
Weakness: a weak point
Prejudice: a feeling of not linking somebody or something before all the facts are known
My fellow man: other people in general
sin: an act against a religious law
devil: the most powerful evil spirits and enemy of God
deed: act; action; something that you do

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1) O autor do texto acima faz uma descrição poética da doação de órgãos. Analisando os dados dos sites abaixo, você diria que a doação é uma coisa simplista? Quais são os dados que comprovam a sua resposta? 2) Quais são as condições necessárias para que uma pessoa possa ser um doador em potencial? E que tipos de doações realmente são possíveis?

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