Lubbock TX. A local couple advocates for organ donation after the positive impact it had on their family with their daughter's loss.
"There used to be a billboard over Mrs. Barrett's thrift store back then, that had a billboard about organ donation and on our way to Monterey that morning she said, 'Mom I would do that. I would do that.'," Terri Contreras said remembering her daughter Celeste.
Celeste Contreras passed away when she was 15 years old. Her parents wish to keep the details of her death private.
"She passed about three months after her quinceanera," Terri said. "It devastated the whole family."
"At times I felt selfish," Celeste's Father Juan Contreras said. "I'll never see her graduate. I'll never see her go to college. I won't have grand-babies and then I said, 'Why are you thinking that way?' Don't be that way, don't be selfish."
While Juan and Terri faced the decision to keep or take their daughter off of life support, Life Gift approached them with the question on if Celeste is an organ donor. Continue reading
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