Opinion: 'The Nicholas Effect' 25 years later: After we donated our son's organs, Italy was never the same (via latimesopinion)
that if someone they loved died of a brain injury, they could save three or four families on average from devastation by choosing to give.
Maria Pia Pedala was 19 years old and in a coma when she received his liver. She quickly regained health, married and four years later had a baby boy. She named him Nicholas. Now tall and handsome, he is fit enough in a family with a history of liver disease to have been accepted for training as a noncommissioned officer in the Italian navy.Italian families still name their children after Nicholas, and with the American spelling instead of the traditional Nicolas.
So that I would never forget everything that happened — and to encourage other families to donate organs — I wrote a book called “The Nicholas Effect.” It was the basis for a late 1990s made-for-television movie, “Nicholas’ Gift,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis, that has been viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I can’t see how anyone can watch that movie and remain indifferent to organ donation.
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