Five people receive life-saving organ transplants from Lucy Dee
Lucy Dee's liver, heart, kidneys and lungs were donated to five people, the youngest being 25-years-old and the oldest 58-years-old.
Five people have received organs from the late Lucy Dee who succumbed to her wounds on Sunday after she was injured in a terrorist attack in the West Bank on Friday, leaving her her two daughters killed on the spot.
According to the National Transplant Center, the following people received organs from 48-year-old Lucy Dee; a 39-year-old and a 58-year-old received kidney transplants, a 25-year-old man received a liver transplant, a 51-year-old woman received a heart transplant, and 58-year-old woman received a lung transplant.
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The two kidneys were transplanted at Beilinson Hospital while the lungs were transplanted at Sheba Hospital. Dee’s corneas are also expected to be transplanted in the near future.
Yediot Ahronot quoted Rabbi Leo Dee, Lucy’s husband, saying: “When the doctors gave us the news and explained that she was in a condition where organs could be donated, I gathered the family and we decided together to donate her organs.”
Rabbi Leo said that in his wife’s situation it was “halachically permissible” to donate, and “even a mitzvah.”
“Only the bones and tendons are not donated and everything else is saving lives and must be donated,” Rabbi Leo added.
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