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Grief mixed with gratitude: Ceremony honors memory of organ donors

By Penn State News

HERSHEY, Pa. — Bill Griffis knows very little about the person whose liver became his. But that doesn’t stop the 50-year-old from West Lawn, Berks County, from thanking his donor every morning when he wakes up.

It started in late 2013 after Griffis received his transplant. “I said every day, I’m going to live for my donor, and that’s what I do.”

His words brought tears to many of the people who gathered Sunday, Feb. 23, on the campus of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Each of them represented deceased donors who gave the gift of life between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.

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