Though Lana Kuykendall's organs remain in good shape, "they told me it could still go either way, " her husband said.

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It has been a very long and tough road for me suffering nine metastasis, ten major surgeries and losing a few major organs.

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"It came to me in that moment then to ask them whether we could donate Imogen's organs and I think they were a bit taken aback, " she said.

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With my organs in a knot, I gave up and called my brother to pick me up in his Prius.

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He needed those beds for patients alive and fighting for life, not for patients who - as one committee member put it to me - are 'essentially dead' and are waiting for the system to allow their organs to be removed.

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