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The Gift of Life

On May 7, Lai Wenyu received an electronic card and a thank you letter from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center (CODAC), saying he had become the 1,185,092nd person to register on the platform and thus become an organ donor.

“When I’m dead, my organs can still help other people, isn’t it a good thing?” Lai told . Believing that donating one’s organs and body to science after death can benefit medical study and research, the senior college student has registered to offer his whole body when

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